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Real people should not be on television," host Garry Shandling declared at the Emmys, to cheers from a crowd of nervous actors. Reality TV dominated 2000, providing some of its best shows (see No. 1) and ickiest lows (remember Rick Rockwell?). TV had other fantasy-reality conflicts: Leonardo DiCaprio played an ABC journalist with Bill Clinton; CBS's Early Show digitized its logo onto video of Manhattan; and then there was election night. At the Emmys, reality lost out. There's no award for nonscripted shows, and The West Wing's airbrushed depictions of our better angels beat...
...various "counter-cults" have developed: Steve Maurer, who taught at Hampshire for two years, introduced the Yellow Pig's antithesis--the Pink Pig, which is closely associated with the number 23, and produced evidence proving the ascendancy of 23 over 17. (Adherents to the Yellow Pig consider 23 the "ickiest" number of them all.) For a while, Pink Pig t-shirts began to appear, but the era of the interloper, though still remembered, was short-lived...
...still better reasons. In the game of suspense, Mistress Radcliffe can tease with the best of them, and in the art of natural description she can pile a crag or plummet a chasm with any man short of Scott himself. True, the dear lady is one of the ickiest prigs who ever put quill to scented paper. Yet if in 1794 her virginal vaporings came on as symptoms of high sensibility, in 1966 they come off as conventions of high comedy. All unintentionally, Udolpho is one of the funniest books ever written, a travesty of the romantic ethos that reads...
...life of Christ. King of Kings was produced in Spain by a marked-down DeMille named Samuel Bronston who built 396 sets, hired some 20,000 extras and a dozen slightly famous players, spent more than four months and $8,000.000. And what emerged? Incontestably the corniest, phoniest, ickiest and most monstrously vulgar of all the big Bible stories Hollywood has told in the last decade. Nevertheless, the subject is so dear to the hearts of millions that King of Kings will undoubtedly be filling Hollywood's collection plates for months to come. Scheduled for reserved-seat. pre-Christmas...
...billfold. At last he runs into Janet Leigh, a flapper with more visible flap than the censor generally allows, and he flips back to normal. Yet, at the fadeout, as the old meanie cops his bye-bye tablets, and the hero rides off unscathed on some of the ickiest two-beat ever taped, there is room to wonder if justice was really done...