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Word: vamp (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only Prescott left is an octogenarian Debbie Reynolds. Many of the juiciest roles are just a drop in the Cinerama bucket. Thelma Ritter is a snappish delight as a man-hungry wagon woman. Walter Brennan is deliciously vile as a river pirate who uses his vamp-eyed daughter (Starlet Brigid Bazlen) as bait to lure fur-laden Trapper Jimmy Stewart to a temporary downfall at the bottom of a cave. Raymond Massey is, for what seems like the four-score-and-tenth time, Abraham Lincoln. Gregory Peck is a tinhorn gambler, Robert Preston a roaring wagon master, Henry Fonda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Buffalorama | 3/22/1963 | See Source »

...Eternal City was growing weary of the eternal triangle. "This vamp who destroys families and shucks husbands like a praying mantis," said Rome's Il Tempo, should be tossed out of Italy as an "undesirable." But Elizabeth Taylor, 30, and Richard Burton, 36, only went as far as a fishing village on the Tyrrhenian coast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 4, 1962 | 5/4/1962 | See Source »

...lessen Irma's public effect. Information Chief Augusto Mulet Descamps tried both sneers and smears. He publicly branded her opinions "treasonable," and in official information bulletins, called her a vamp and a blackmailer. Mulet, 48, even tried to plant a story that Irma used her column to get even with him because he spurned her advances. When most Guatemalan newspapers refused to print that story, he wanted to run it as a paid ad, was again turned down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUATEMALA: Street Incident | 10/24/1960 | See Source »

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