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Word: unbuttoning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Zygmunt Malanowicz) is the classic student--dishevelled, poor and ambitious. "I know," his lover muses, "you sleep six in a room and you have to take her to the park where it's so cold you can't even unbutton her blouse." But there is really little difference between the young Pole and his older nemesis. "You're just like him," the woman tells the youth, "only half his age, weaker, and more stupid." And still she makes love to the boy. It is here-in the film's negativistic conclusion--that Polanski shows' his true affinities. His style...

Author: By Fitzhugh S. M. mullan., | Title: Knife in the Water | 2/13/1964 | See Source »

...judge of my horror when I saw the President unbutton his clothes and heard him say, 'We had better strip, so as not to wet our things in the Creek.' Then I, too, for the honor of France, removed my apparel, everything except my lavender kid gloves. The President cast an inquiring look at these as if they, too, must come off, but I quickly forestalled any remark by saying, 'With your permission, Mr. President, I will keep these on; otherwise it would be embarrassing if we should meet ladies.' And so we jumped into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 1, 1963 | 3/1/1963 | See Source »

...believed, are constantly chewing gum, listening to jazz, riding motor scooters and wearing sunglasses in every conceivable stage of degradation. Every now and then, Director Mauro Bolognini remembers that he is supposed to sermonize, and there follows a cancer-at-the-heart-of-society scene. The punks unbutton their shirts to the navel (male exposure is the latest thing in social cancer) and lounge around glaring at one another. Nothing happens, which in the end is what seems the symbolic and significant development in The Wild Night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dead-End Bambini | 2/9/1962 | See Source »

...attendance figure to date of nearly 171 million, Music Hall shows have played to the approximate equivalent of the U.S. population. Finding films to go with the stage show is the job of President-Managing Director Russell V. Downing, who freely admits that, since television has forced Hollywood to unbutton its themes, the Music Hall has had to change its standards. Its record moneymakers-The Great Caruso, Mister Roberts, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers-reflect the sort of choices the Music Hall once preferred, but now Downing is accepting gamier movies such as Parrish, Suzie Wong and Where the Boys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spectacles: Grand Canyon East | 8/25/1961 | See Source »

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