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Basically, the whole place needs a good bath. The ice surface resembles the face of the guy in the commercial who didn't use Trac II--it has a great many cuts, nicks and scratches, the kind of surface upon which it is impossible to learn to skate. Gotcha...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Last-Minute Escape | 11/30/1976 | See Source »

Married. Joseph Hazziez, 37, soul singer under the name of Joe Tex who, after three 1,000,000-disk recordings (Skinny Legs and All, Hold On to What You've Got, I Gotcha), changed his beat last July to become a Black Muslim minister; and Leah Miller, 22, pre-med student; he for the second time, she for the first; in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 15, 1973 | 1/15/1973 | See Source »

...fronts weren't so big. They sure ruin the line of your beads." It is the first of many slices of cutesie-pie proffered by Director George Roy Hill, including innumerable jokes about the restless, breastless flappers, and oh-you-kidding dialogue indicating that "by jingo" and "gotcha" are supposed to be terrif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Thoroughly Maudlin | 4/7/1967 | See Source »

...action scenes the Gaullist heroes-ludicrously misdirected by Rene Clement, who made his reputation with a film about children (Forbidden Games)-look so much like a platoon of preschool toddlers playing bang-I-gotcha! that instead of glory they get mostly guffaws. After an hour or so of this, most previewers were badly rattled. Some tried plugging their ears, but then the action looked completely incomprehensible. Some tried closing their eyes, but then they could still hear the lines-e.g., "Fifty kilometers to Paris? Hm. That's about 30 miles." Finally, a few coony old film critics discovered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bcmg-l-Gotcha! | 11/25/1966 | See Source »

...gotcha," for those who don't know, ain't fitten to talk about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Expose Yalie 'Gotchas' | 10/25/1961 | See Source »

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