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Word: goin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Comin' & Goin'. As wrestling styles have changed, so has wrestling's audience. The joints are filling up with women fans. "It's natural, ain't it?" asks Mondt. "Women like to look at well-developed fellas." They seem to like to crowd close to ringside, curse the villains, cheer the heroes, and punctuate the performance with strategically planted hatpins. In Manhattan, where wrestling fans bought out Madison Square Garden seven times last year and caused two small-scale riots, the most popular musclemen make up the tag team of Antonino Rocco and Miguel Perez. Rocco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPECTACLES: Heroes & Villains | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

When Hero Jim Blackstarr does any talking, he is all corn pone and hominy grits: "Look, Betty Lee, it i'n't goin' to be like this all the time. It won't be too long foah we kin git married . . ." But when Jim gets around to long thoughts about the landscape, Author Salamanca puts down these words about a summer storm: "It gets gray and cool and then the wind comes gusty from the mountains . . . and the tossing trees in the wind are like oceans with little silver fish slipping through the tops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wolfe Cub | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

...Miss Verdon does a burlesque on the art of burlesque in the seduction scene. Apparently, movie producers believe the only accepted approach to the pursuit of life is a humorous one. Nevertheless, in the words of a modern bard, wherever Miss Verdon goes, "there's a whole lotta shakin' goin...

Author: By Richard E. Ashcraft, | Title: Damn Yankees | 10/17/1958 | See Source »

...jazz cellars into such brassy clubs as Manhattan's Copacabana. Does that mean she plans to stick entirely to pop songs? Not at all, says Ella. "I sing like I feel. Sometimes some of the fellas say, 'What's the matter, Ella, you goin' square?' And I tell them, 'I'm not goin' square, I'm going versatile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Pop Records | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

...film is spotted with a succession of little horrors. We see the two convicts with nooses around their necks, surrounded by an angry mob; a woman's voice pipes up, "What you menfolks goin' t' do?" The pursuing posse includes a little man who plays rock and roll on a portable radio--so that, with each flashback, the audience will remember who these people...

Author: By Daniel Field, | Title: The Defiant Ones | 9/30/1958 | See Source »

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