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Word: verr (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...turned the Paris-London-Broadway musical show of several years ago into a raffishly sophisticated screen comedy that makes streetwalking seem almost as wholesome as the 50-mile hike. The score has been reduced to background music, and Wilder has wisely done away with all of the original verr-ee French accents. But he has added an ingredient that was perhaps mercifully lacking on the stage: where the theater's Irma was the only girl on view, the screen now swings with poules on parade-Kiki the Cossack in fur-topped boots, Lolita in heart-shaped sunglasses, the Zebra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Just Lucky, I Guess | 6/21/1963 | See Source »

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