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Word: cuestick (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Usage:

...HUSTLER. Director Robert Rossen, in a formidable, expert and exciting commercial movie, promulgates a slangy, sexy saga of the pool halls, a remodeled myth in which the old king of the cuestick (Jackie Gleason) yields his laurels to the new (Paul Newman), but only after an enormously exciting trial by combat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: THE BEST PICTURES OF 1961 | 12/29/1961 | See Source »

...shooting scenes are magnificently staged -the principals were coached by Willie Mosconi, top-ranking pool player in the U.S.-and tellingly edited by Director Robert Rossen (They Came to Cordura). The suspense in the first big game will surely bring sweat to any palm that has ever touched a cuestick. Then, too, Newman is better than usual; Gleason, as the slit-mouthed, beady-eyed Minnesota Fats, darts among the shabby little pool sharks like an improbably agile and natty whale; and Gambler Scott looks as though he could sell hot-air heat to the devil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Chalk Opera | 10/6/1961 | See Source »

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