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Word: waving (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...looks like a sackful of doorknobs. With hair dyed by Alcoa, pipe-cleaner limbs, and knees just missing one another when the feet are wide apart, this is not Princess Volupi e. It is Phyllis Diller, the poor man's Auntie Mame, only successful female among the New Wave comedians and one of the few women funny and tough enough to belt out a "standup" act of one-line gags...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comedians: Killer Diller | 3/24/1961 | See Source »

Apparently there had been a minor wave of food thefts during the past several weeks, and the policemen were alerted to watch the Divinity School carefully. The fatal bullet was preceded by warning shots--one to five, according to various accounts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale FBI Policeman Kills 'Townie' Burglar | 3/20/1961 | See Source »

...group of high school girls near Andrews Square wait for the start of the parade. Middle, Governor John A. Volpe (left) and Senate President John E. Powers--both loyal sons of Erin--wave to the crowd. U.S. Senator Leverett Saltonstall and other dignitaries also rode in the parade...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Volpe, Powers, Saltonstall Lead Parade Commemorating Demise of Irish Snakes | 3/18/1961 | See Source »

...Catholicism are the same"), but in his work he is earthbound with his themes. Molelike behind dark glasses, his hair thinning and his bank account growing, he avoids people and parties, often passes hour after hour with friends while saying almost nothing. His main worry is that the New Wave may be hurt by its worst potential enemy: pretension. "The public," he says, "is happily insensitive to the verbiage of the esthetes. The essential thing is for us to remain lucid, and not take ourselves for the navel of the universe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies Abroad: Larcenous Talent | 3/17/1961 | See Source »

Love and the Frenchwoman (Auerbach; Kingsley International) is a plaster-of-Paris whale (2 hr. 23 min.) of a picture from the French Old Wave-artificial but amusing. In form, the film is a cinemanthology of seven short subjects, each written by a famous French novelist or scenarist, each directed by a different man, each played by different actors, and intended altogether to dramatize the seven ages of woman. In effect, it is the usual shallow but intelligent French discussion, toujours gai and sometimes icily ironic, of what makes the world go round...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Seven Ages of Woman | 3/17/1961 | See Source »

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