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Word: hunchback (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fiction set in South America. The intention is to curb the spread of package-tour baroque and heavy irony....Ah, the daiquiri bird which incubates its eggs on the wing; ah the fredonna tree whose root grow at the tips of its branches, and whose fibers assist the hunchback to impregnate by telepathy the haughty wife of the hacienda owner; ah, the opera house now overgrown by jungle...

Author: By Jean- CHRISTOPHER Castelli, | Title: This Bird Has Hown | 4/22/1985 | See Source »

...Hunchback...

Author: By Charles E. Cohen, | Title: Band Trumpets Its 65th Anniversary | 11/2/1984 | See Source »

Covello, said he will be the "band hunchback" because he is in a cast after falling off his chimney and breaking his back...

Author: By Charles E. Cohen, | Title: Band Trumpets Its 65th Anniversary | 11/2/1984 | See Source »

...doing it at NBC. Instead he delegates it to a swami like Brandon Tartikoff [president of NBC Entertainment]." So why was Tinker hired? Says Klein: "His boss at RCA, Thornton Bradshaw, said Tinker has 'bearing.' I think the stockholders might be happier if he was a hunchback with a bad mole, and put them in No. 1. But even if NBC gets there, it won't mean as much as it used to. Now it's just a bigger slice of a smaller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Troubled Times for the Networks | 2/7/1983 | See Source »

DIED. Marty Feldman, 49, cockeyed, rubber-faced, cockney comedian best remembered as the lovable hunchback Igor in Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein and as Brooks' zany sidekick in Silent Movie; of a heart attack after completing location filming of a new comedy; in Mexico City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 13, 1982 | 12/13/1982 | See Source »

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