Word: gee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hubert Humphrey bounces into the Oval Room of the White House, exuding more than his usual good spirits. "By golly, by gum, gee whillikers, don't you look wonderful, Mr. President!" Lyndon Johnson replies with his usual frankness: "All right, cut the crap, Hubie. I got somethin' to tell ya." Thus the President informs the Vice President that he does not intend to run for reelection, that the way is now open for a Humphrey candidacy. "Hello, Muriel Bird," the Veep burbles into the phone five minutes later. "Have I got good news...
...Updike made a talented try at marrying priapism to poetry by using hard-breathing language as the preacher. Your review almost succeeded where Updike's novel fails-that is, to see beyond the current public American view of sexuality as a gee-whiz genital performance. But neither your reviewer nor Updike ever really found a way out of Updike's Tarbox. I believe you ought to get some reading done away from the Greenwich commuter's bar car. There's a whole landscape of really living people outside who aren't the lost adolescents...
...Gee whiz, that kind of carryin' on has been all the rage from these Kansas plains clear out West to Hollywood and beyond. You mean it's just startin' to catch on back East...
...These Roman actors live very well," observed Jason Robards. "It was trie perfect party, and I just loved meeting Lauren Bacall," gushed Claudia Cardinale. "Gee, I don't remember if I went to a party or not," admitted Faye Dunaway, 27, who was in Rome for her latest film, The Lovers, and was the sight for all eyes at a bash given by Italian Actor Vittorio Gassman. "La Dolce Vita's dead," explained Gassman, "so I called it the 'California Roman Party' to honor the foreigners in town." From the sound of it, La Dolce Vita...
...says, all of its musical elements came largely from Africa. Here and there he explores an intriguing historical byway, as in his study of the influence that New Orleans opera performances had on the ragtime and blues of Creole Composer Jelly Roll Morton. And he even unearths an occasional gee-whiz oddity, such as the fact that one of the first authentic white Dixieland bands was led by Jimmy Durante...