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Word: nastiest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...done everything: trial drama ( Witness for the Prosecution ). Hollywood gothic ( Sunset Boulevard ). farce ( Some Like It Hot ), upper-crust romance ( Sabrina ). alcoholic melodrama ( The Lost Weekend ). He has done everything, and yet, he always wants the same thing from his audience-total distrust. Cynicism of the nastiest sort creeps into all of his work. While that doesn't exactly make his films pleasant, it certainly makes them unique in the history of American cinema...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: The Moviegoer Billy Wilder at the Orson Welles through Tuesday | 11/21/1969 | See Source »

...love it. I recommend it to my friends," a Harvard sophomore said of the Confi Guide. "The nastiest, most unprintable garbage I've ever seen," snarled an unidentified Lowell House tutor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Is Frightened As 'Confi' Approaches | 9/18/1969 | See Source »

Probably the nastiest problems of all are posed when heads of state get together. In 1475, England's Edward IV and France's Louis XI met in the mid dle of a bridge spanning the Somme near Amiens, with a thick oaken lattice separating them, to settle a war in Picardy. The three feuding princes of Laos -Souphanouvong, Souvanna Phouma and Boun Oum, similarly met in the middle of a bridge over the Nam Lik River in 1961 to launch the talks that eventually led to the country's tenuous neutralization. When Napoleon and Alexander...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Those Maddening Modalities | 12/13/1968 | See Source »

...Thursday-and the week isn't even over yet." By the time the week, and Pretty Poison ends, the young man is in stir, Sue Ann is answering some rather pointed questions from the police, and the viewer will have seen one of the nicest, nastiest little crime films to come out of Hollywood in years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Fun Couple | 11/22/1968 | See Source »

There is little overt civic pride. Even Big Business is either too big, fragmented or uninterested to offer the kind of leadership it exerts in cities like Pittsburgh and Atlanta. Extraordinarily kind on occasion, New Yorkers in the mass can be the rudest, surliest, nastiest citizens of America and, with the possible exception of Paris, the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JOHN LINDSAY'S TEN PLAGUES | 11/1/1968 | See Source »

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