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Word: previewed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York, where the big fashion shows are held. Every summer the group conducts a "press week," with showings of the next fall and winter fashions; again, in the winter, the styles for the following spring and summer are trotted out. It is against the rules for anyone to preview the fashions before the press-week release dates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: It's Ridiculous' | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

...20th Century-Fox). In a sneak preview of this film at a Manhattan movie theater, a woman in the roped-off guest section raised her voice in the dark to cry: "Good heavens, how could Hank have accepted such a role?" There on the screen, prancing awkwardly in mandarin robes, flamenco suits, a clown costume, a silly goatee, was Henry Fonda in the role of Willie Bauché, Hollywood producer-director-writer-actor and the most elaborate phony since the big bad wolf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Man Who Understood Women | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

...planning a preview of its schedule this week, already counts 235 specials. Colbert, Preston and Bernstein are among the names that loom large, along with a promise of more prime-time news shows than before. Even ABC. generally content to ride the wave of the future buoyed up by an oversupply of westerns and private-eye programs, will weigh in with Crosby. Sinatra et al. in some 30 specials. Only apparent problem so far: with one scheduled practically every other night, a "special" may not seem special by season's end. If a new word is needed, the networks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Special Plans | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

...Harvard Summer Theatre Group, in choosing this play, has tackled the most difficult task that any summer student company has ever undertaken here. Its ambitiousness has resulted in a highly entertaining production, which opens this evening after an invitational preview last night...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Man Comes to Dinner at the Union | 8/6/1959 | See Source »

High Pressure. The viewers at The Tingler's preview in Hollywood last week watched with a kind of critical apprehension. Surely, Horror Movie Expert William Castle, 45, had dreamed up a gimmick more devilish than that. He had. Seconds later, as the tingler was supposedly slithering across the screen, seats actually shivered and buzzed; the audience tingled for fair. Bill Castle had wired vibrators beneath almost everyone in the place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD: Queer for Fear | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

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