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Word: jessye (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Usage:

The Second Coming has come and gone. Back in the Old West, Christ parachuted to earth. He was dressed in a zoot suit, called himself Jessy and said he was en route to Jerusalem "to be an actor-singer-dancer. It is written that the agent Morris awaits me." His...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Unholy Trinity | 8/21/1972 | See Source »

Greaser also has a son, a sniveling little freak called Lamy Homo (Michael Sullivan), whom he keeps murdering and Jessy (Allan Arbus) keeps raising from the dead. "If ya feel, ya heal," is the way Jessy's laying on of hands proceeds, and others besides Lamy benefit too. A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Unholy Trinity | 8/21/1972 | See Source »

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