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Word: lunk (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sure enough, it's Elvis Presley. Just after the film begins he oozes up to his carnivalentine (Joan Freeman) and attaches that mouth to her face. She staggers back in alarm, but the old softie (Barbara Stanwyck) who owns the show takes a liking to the lunk and pays him to sing pretty for the people. He doesn't sing very pretty, but there are compensations-when he starts singing he stops acting. Anyway, just before the film ends Elvis presents a fairly stiff upper lip, pays off the mortgage, gets the girl. "Git closuh," he instructs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Freak Show | 12/11/1964 | See Source »

...drives to work. When the boss gets a load of that showboat parked next to his own heap, he fires the hero on the spot. Two days later, Dhéry gets a new job as a chauffeur: his boss is the mistress, who promptly locks the poor lunk in the trunk, drives by the wife's house and hollers yoo-hoo. After 20 hours in the trunk, the hero escapes, recaptures the car, on the way home stops for gas. But it isn't just a gas station; it's a car-wash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Get-a-Horse Laugh | 1/5/1962 | See Source »

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