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Word: weres (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Not even the high professionalism of his Broadway production can disguise the fact that Thornton Wilder's Our Town was, is and always will be a humanities lecture with visual aids. The principal aids are the characters, who, ike the tables and chairs on the otherwise barren set, are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Verities Revisited | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

Noel Coward pours the froth of inflection as if it were the champagne of wit. He is a connoisseur of surfaces, a sealer of the comic Everests of trivia. His plays are echo chambers of his own voice. His cool, clipped speech serves as an ironically British parody of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: High on Gin and Sin | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

Stage Originals. Coward's characters are frequently mistaken for caricatures. Caricature goes to reality for a model, but Coward's people exist outside reality. They are stage originals. In this sense, the casting of Private Lives is just about perfect. Brian Bedford seems like a man who would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: High on Gin and Sin | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

(2 of 11) enhancer that medical research shows can cause brain damage in some animals. The three largest producers of baby food have since stopped using it. In addition, Nader's repeated warnings about the dangers of cyclamates and DDT helped to nudge the Department of Health, Education and Welfare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: THE U.S.'s TOUGHEST CUSTOMER | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

(6 of 11) simply supplement. Some retailers who mail out unsolicited credit cards try passing on the high costs of collection and theft loss to their customers. Until protests from three states prompted revisions in the plan, Montgomery Ward billed charge-account customers for credit life insurance on themselves to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: THE U.S.'s TOUGHEST CUSTOMER | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

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