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Word: gong (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pick the Charles River bridge of your choice this morning and watch that "Gong Show of the Waters." The Intramural Crew heats, starting at 8:30 at the Basin. Cheer for the likes of the Eliot House X-V's (which actually beat the Tufts Varsity) and the Quincy House Sea Pigs (which didn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoreboard | 4/28/1981 | See Source »

...original. This Bible's really notable achievements are its simple vocabulary and an attempt at everyday idiom (I Corinthians 13: "I may be able to speak the languages of men and even of angels, but if I have no love, my speech is no more than a noisy gong or a clanging bell"). A better choice than the Living Bible for people who have trouble reading a more traditional version...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Rivals to the King James Throne | 4/20/1981 | See Source »

After a start seven years ago on Laugh-In, a regular stint on The Sonny and Cher Show, both as comic-actor Murray Langston, and 130 bagged appearances on The Gong Show, the Unknown Comic is on the verge of becoming known. The bag-headed comedian has been offered the lead role, without the bag, in a television pilot called Scared Stiff, about a bumbling private detective. He is also close to doing a syndicated half-hour variety show that would star the Unknown Comic, with...

Author: By Bill Braunstein, | Title: THE UNKNOWN COMIC | 9/18/1980 | See Source »

Much of the nation has. After his first appearance on The Gong show about three years ago, Langston, unemployed and broke, started a mini-national phenomenon with his bagged buffoonery. Imitators galore popped up: an Unknown Disc Jockey, an Unknown Used Car Salesman, a University of Georgia student who ran for class president (and won) as the Unknown Candidate...

Author: By Bill Braunstein, | Title: THE UNKNOWN COMIC | 9/18/1980 | See Source »

...actor's union and I knew if I could get on The Gong Show I could earn the $250 fee they are required to pay. My inspiration was simply money and embarrassment. I needed the cash, but was too embarrassed to appear as a contestant, so I figured the simplest and cheapest disguise would be a paper...

Author: By Bill Braunstein, | Title: THE UNKNOWN COMIC | 9/18/1980 | See Source »

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