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Word: offing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1960
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Actress Prowse, a sort of Leslie Caron with vitamins, is absolutely out of place in this picture. She looks human.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 5, 1960 | 12/5/1960 | See Source »

Even Elvis deserves a better script than he gets in this sniggery little dogface farce. The G.I. hero (Presley) is stationed, as Elvis was, in Germany; and he has, as Elvis had, more "frowlines" than he can find time for. Then of course he meets the girl he can'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 5, 1960 | 12/5/1960 | See Source »

Despite the blues, the anger and the protest that are part of her folk repertory, the world is not being dreadful to Odetta.' This week she moves from Boston's Storyville into Manhattan's Blue Angel, applauded as the most exciting female folk singer in the U.S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Baby in the Cradle | 12/5/1960 | See Source »

A large, dignified woman of 29, she faces her audience with guitar lightly cradled in her arms, her moon face impassive, her eyes coolly remote. The number for which she is most famous is Water Boy, an old Negro work song, but she has in her repertory some 200 tunes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Baby in the Cradle | 12/5/1960 | See Source »

Breaking Rocks. Her voice was originally trained for opera. Born in Alabama, Odetta grew up in Los Angeles, picked up money for her voice lessons working in a button factory and as a maid. By the time she entered junior college she was a chorister in productions of Verdi'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Baby in the Cradle | 12/5/1960 | See Source »

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