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Word: imprison (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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From somewhere in the Bel Air mansion overlooking Hollywood, the butler appears with four squirming Yorkshire terriers and one beribboned miniature French poodle. Off in a corner, a burly, bald man toys with a tape recorder. "How do you parse champagne?" he asks suddenly. "How do you imprison it on a page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD: How to Write a Book | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

...sprawling ugliness of a three-story Willard Hotel that seems to imprison the audience as well as the players, this pallid version of Broadway's Look Homeward, Angel has just enough story line for a wistful, low-key one-act play. The line goes hopelessly slack in the second and third acts when Playwright Sergel keeps falling back on his first. Even the major Anderson characters seem thin, and for a good reason. Anderson merely sketched them with evocative daubs; his adapter failed to fill them out with the detail demanded by the theater. Out of misapplied reverence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Feb. 17, 1958 | 2/17/1958 | See Source »

...read in Life magazine that the government bombards animals with gamma rays. They imprison monkeys and mice in cramped cages. They starve cats to death and chill dogs in freezing tanks of water. I ask you--do such practices promote human welfare...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: The Moral Issue | 11/13/1957 | See Source »

...Board has the power to suspend, revoke, or cancel any license it issues, but it cannot fine or imprison violators. Although state law also provides for fines or imprisonment for sale of liquor to minors, the present case was concerned only with the permit violations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Liquor Laws Violated by 4 Restaurants | 10/24/1957 | See Source »

...Whitney's show underlined a curious gloom in U.S. sculptors today. Mostly they weld metal figures of a tormented yet unsympathetic sort. Forbiddingly invested with knobs, prickles and outright spikes, the figures imprison a bit of free air and defy anyone to invade it. David Hare's sculptures were a happy exception to the grim parade. Long dour as the rest, Hare has now invented a new and carefree impressionism. His Sunrise creates an effect of light and loftiness out of a rock, some steel bars and cut bronze sheets tinted with gold. Another exception was Richard Lippold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Postwar Decade | 5/23/1955 | See Source »

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