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Word: touche (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plus prizes) weekly for a show that, according to one survey, was being watched on 84.8% of all TV sets in operation. So far, Revlon has paid contestants only $175,000 and two Cadillacs. Sales of such Revlon paints and powders as Love That Pink, Living Lipstick and Touch and Glow are up as much as 50%. Its nearest lipstick competitor, Hazel Bishop, had been forced to pass its quarterly dividend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED SERVICES: Semper Chow | 9/26/1955 | See Source »

...tries to tell. The trouble is that in trying to handle their dramatic subject with a "documentary" technique the producers have come up with an overexcited document, and a drama that too often trickles away into the fine print. And yet Phenix City has the force of see-and-touch realism. The action was filmed among the same sallow bars, heat-shimmering sidewalks and deceptively innocent-looking back lots that watched it in the life. The actors try hard to weather naturally into the scene. Edward Andrews succeeds wonderfully: he hits the apogee of Southern villainy as he slomires agreeably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 19, 1955 | 9/19/1955 | See Source »

...placed on the rugs. Reclining on the rugs and gadis, His Excellency Syed Amjad Ali, the Pakistani ambassador, sat in cross-legged splendor. He was dressed in gaudy sport clothes and a dark ten-gallon hat. A red and green silk beach umbrella shaded the ambassador from the direct touch of the cruel sun, and a swarm of sari-clad women from his household kept him and his guests plentifully supplied with cooling drinks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAPITAL: Hot Afternoon | 9/5/1955 | See Source »

...carefully, observing safety rules, you must refer to it . . To insure [progress, we must insure] the freedom to explore, create, originate and improvise . . . This is why we've coupled religion and jazz, two of the mediums of communication which speak a universal language, and need no interpreters to touch the soul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Theology & Jazz | 9/5/1955 | See Source »

...blare of trumpets, a glitter of sequins and an outburst of romantic candles, television's most Spectacular season opened last week. NBC pronounced the summer prematurely over and raised the curtain on a season of high promise with a 90-minute version of the 1943 Broadway musical, One Touch of Venus. Janet Blair had the tiptoe grace required of a goddess awakened after slumbering for thousands of years in marble; Kurt Weill's pleasant music occasionally gave the show levitation; Russell Nype and George Gaynes struggled bravely against the shackling grasp of the heavyhanded plot. But Venus underlined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: $75 Million Package | 9/5/1955 | See Source »

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