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Word: wanted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...upquilled. "This deadly, winking, sniggering, snuggling, chromium-plated, scent-impregnated, luminous, quivering, giggling, fruit-flavored, mincing, ice-covered heap of mother-love," fumed Connor of Wladziu Valentino Liberace. "He is the summit of sex-the pinnacle of Masculine, Feminine and Neuter. Everything that He, She or It can ever want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Liberace Show | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

Prizes & Pedigree. Since then, there has been no stopping César. "I am like a dog with a pedigree. I've won prizes," he says. "In the studio I want to shake things. I like things to be brutal. If I see that one of my pieces is pretty, I smash it-if I have the courage." Few of the 27 pieces (at $800 to $6,075)in last week's exhibition failed to pass César's own standards of brutality and ugliness. Homage to Brancusi is a big iron egg covered with spikes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Hit of Paris | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

...poet") and William Carlos Williams ("The total impression is of great beauty"). Three months ago he returned from Paris, where he had read poetry in Left Bank squares and cafes with Beat Poet Allen Ginsberg, soon had all of Manhattan's beatniks digging it. Sample: "i want to hear once more the bedspring music of your kiss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Beatnik Crisis | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

...going out to buy a can of pork and beans' and find you choking up. Judy Holliday has a lot of that. And Shirley Booth's voice has some of it. But if I had a choice of a performance I'd want my mother to see-if she could come back for 80 minutes-I'd pick Shirley's in Some Came Running...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD: The Ring -a- Ding Girl | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

...days, with one or two exceptions, Hollywood girls couldn't be both sexy and funny. Nowadays they insist on being so-called complete women-healthy and natural. The new crop of actresses is dedicated to the proposition that the girl next door can also be sexy. They want to keep one eye on the baby and let the other eye rove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD: The Ring -a- Ding Girl | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

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