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Word: auric (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course, Franz Sanchez (Robert Davi) is no ordinary narcotics trafficker. He presides over an illicit empire every bit as opulent as Blofeld's or Auric Goldfinger's. He's also equally sadistic; he doesn't bat an eyelash as he feeds Bond's CIA friend, Felix Leiter (David Hedison), to his pet great white shark...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: The New 007: Bringing Bond Back to Basics | 7/14/1989 | See Source »

...tells a new conquest, "there are some things that just aren't done. Such as drinking Dom Perignon '53 above a temperature of 38 degrees F. That's as bad as listening to the Beatles without earmuffs." Minutes later the dear girl's body is lacquered to death by Auric Goldfinger's Korean manservant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bond Keeps Up His Silver Streak | 8/10/1987 | See Source »

...this exiled Afghan prince, Bond knew the type all too well. On twelve, no, 13 previous assignments for Her Majesty's Cinema Service, he had clenched his wits against some of the modern world's most notorious dastards. Imposing men they were-Drax, Blofeld, mad and wily Auric Goldfinger. Somehow this Kamal, this jet-set smuggler, seemed less than they, less than a man, shrunken into his dreary sins, human villainy reduced to venality. He looked wary and frail, like an extinct bird on a porcelain vase. He would hardly be worth killing horribly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Bond Wagon Crawls Along | 6/27/1983 | See Source »

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