Word: goer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...night." He was getting at a basic truth about the fascination of gambling. But what clearly eluded him-and what Sam Toperoff conveys with love in this oddly winning novelistic memoir-is the peculiar delight, the exquisite angst that horses (and wagering on them) give a really dedicated race-goer...
...really tough go-goer hangs around the Olds-mobile 442, which squats near the main entrance. If the girl doesn't catch your eye, the color of the car will. "Lemon-lime luster" is very much like citric acid to the eye. It smarts. It glares. It offends. It's guaranteed to prevent scurvy on sight. The girl's nice, however. Her lines almost mitigate the lines she sings; like "442 -- the Groovy-go machine that will tickle your taste buds for action!" "And inside," she promised, "there are goodies galore." G-g-golly...
...generation ago, a church goer who admitted to doubts about the Virgin Birth, say, would be clearly stamped among his fellows as a disciple of some such flaming modernist as Harry Elmer Barnes at best, or of Agnostic Robert Ingersoll at worst. In the fidelistic mood of the postwar religious revival, questioning was largely out of place - not because people had no doubts, but be cause they were willing to take the church and its teachings as a whole...
...LAST GENTLEMAN, by Walker Percy. A meditative novel by a talented Southern writer (The Movie-Goer) about a young Southerner whose daydreams provide the meaning he cannot find in life...
...star, Coburn, has "sort of a mean look," according to one frequent movie-goer. He has appeared in one other major Columbia film. "Major Dundee," starring Chariton Heston. A spokesman for Columbia was unable to name pictures produced by other companies in which Coburn had appeared...