Word: gassers
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Dobie methodically woos her and the others (15 others) with slang of every vintage-words and phrases which, in the imagination of Author Shulman, ricochet along high school corridors in 1959. Dobie starts out safely enough, tells what "bugs" him, what's "a gasser," who's "kooky" and "all that jazz." But in no time at all, the gassers have become "marvy," the jazz is "jive," and people start "yacking away." An echo from the past informs everyone to "stay loose." Another, from the Dark Ages, adds...
...cinema review of I Want to Live, you say: "To judge from the . . . dragsville dialogue that Krylon-sprays the whole film with a cheap glaze of don't-care-if-I-do-die juvenility, Producer Walter Wanger seems ... to provide the morbid market with a sure-enough gasser." We are pleased indeed that "Krylon spray" is so well known that its name is used to describe a spraying process. But then we read on to a "cheap glaze," and we become unpleased in a hurry! Krylon is the producer of the world's finest spray coatings...
...Translation key: Tooth (Zahn) is a pretty girl. Jazz bomb (Jazz Bombe) is a good dancer. The coals are right (Die Kohlen stimmen) means there is enough money. Heap (Haufen) is a band. Served (bedient) stands for tops. Cloud (Wolke) means roughly a gasser. Sinatra is any singer, and keg (Fass) is a first-rater. Oblique (schräg) is real gone...
...Sanford Seat has seen the far-out monikers come and go. Just in case Conway Twitty ever begins to sound silly in the music stores, Don Seat is prepared. "I have a real gasser," he hints darkly. "A name so good that if I find a guy for it he'll be a star overnight...
...real desperate sound track, and dragsville dialogue that Krylon-spray the whole film with a cheap glaze of don't-care-if-I-do-die juvenility, Producer Walter Wanger seems less concerned to assist the triumph of justice than to provide the morbid market with a sure-enough gasser...