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Word: fishworm (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some inhabitants of a small Oklahoma town. The time is the early 19205. and this is William Inge country-several hundred miles safely north of the swamps of Tennessee Williams and Carson McCullers. but still south of that region where Booth Tar-kington's characters inhabit a perpetual fishworm and firecracker July. The people in the film made from Inge's 1957 Broadway hit have problems, but they do not include necrophilia, cannibalism or self-mutilation with garden shears; the difficulties are the sort a strong man can stare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 12, 1960 | 9/12/1960 | See Source »

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