Word: hatrack
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Holy hatrack! Batman is moving into the retail trade. Television's terrible, twice-weekly Batman series is intended as camp-meaning it's so bad that it's good, at least in the view of some (TIME, Jan. 28). The four-to-twelve age set continues to marvel while Batman and his protégé, Robin the Boy Wonder, rout such Gotham City scoundrels as the Penguin and the Mad Hatter. Teen-agers and the college crowd still consider it sophisticated to snigger at Batman's wildly exaggerated plots and cliché-cluttered dialogue...
...Which contained "Hatrack," the famed, banned-in-Boston story of Asbury's hometown, only-on-Sunday harlot, who, after being rebuffed and shunned at the Sabbath evening service, would haughtily head down the cemetery lane, where she would entertain as many as came, Catholics in the Masonic cemetery and vice versa...