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Word: lickerish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...girl rock trio called the Carrie Nations as they slither from one bed to another on the road to fame in Hollywood. The direction by Skin Flick Impresario Russ Meyer (TIME, June 13, 1969) is full of sexual innuendo of the kind that might impress a lickerish Boy Scout. The script, by Chicago Film Critic Roger Ebert, will surely tickle those who prefer their dialogue with comic-book balloons around it. The movie is just a lark-a big camp, don't you see-but many people may not see, and those who do will probably not care...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Beyond and Below | 7/27/1970 | See Source »

...Lickerish Cleric. Not all of Peckinpah's devices work so well. An engraved face on a $5 bill waggles its eyes suggestively and needlessly as Cable ponders spending the money on Hildy. But such isolated faults seem insignificant alongside Peckinpah's larger virtues. Even his rambling lends the story a leisurely lyricism rare in films today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Back-Room Ballad | 3/16/1970 | See Source »

...actors all perform immaculately. Jason Robards gives the screen performance of his life. Stella Stevens is cynical and wistful with equal facility, and David Warner is wonderfully funny and moving as the lickerish cleric. Together with Peckinpah's usual stock company of Martin and Jones, they make the old desert as real and recent as yesterday. With this film, Peckinpah unmistakably becomes the successor to John Ford, not only as a director of westerns but as an American film artist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Back-Room Ballad | 3/16/1970 | See Source »

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