Word: pikes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Says he: "Good God, anyone who sings my songs sings them better than me." In truth, he caught on quickly as a performer. Lean and bearded, he radiated both a searing sexuality and a boyish vulnerability. That combination was translated into a fast rise in movies. His first, Cisco Pike (1971), about a pop idol down on his luck, merely suggested his film potential. Several more -Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, Blume in Love, Alice Doesn 't Live Here Anymore -followed. Last year's A Star Is Born, in which he played Barbra Streisand's aging...
...Testament critics, rather on the conservative side but no literalist on such matters as Christ's miracles or the virgin birth. He became famous, however, through his 1963 bestseller, Honest to God, which set teacups rattling in many a rectory. Like America's Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike, he scandalized the pious by belittling "our images of God as a Being 'up there.' " His book also advocated what was called "the New Morality," rejecting absolute rules of right and wrong. After he resigned as Bishop of Woolwich and returned to Cambridge in 1969, Robinson wrote...
...third largest men's magazine. (Last year that ordinal number meant over twenty million dollars in profit.) Hustler, in fact, celebrates the myth of the hard-drivin' fast-cussin' mean-fisted truckdrivers. They are the last American heroes, a lone breed of tough guys blazing down the pike at a speed that would turn a "pansyass" as white as his collar. Flynt talks slowly, firmly, and with a touch of impatience as if he were explaining a simple concept to a classroom of distracted children...
...rebate plan will pep up demand enough to cut quickly into unemployment. On the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, Barber Conable of New York, the ranking Republican, likens the passing out of $50 checks to everyone to "dropping money out of airplanes"; New York Democrat Otis Pike grumbles that there must be a better way to create jobs...
...Florence Pike '80, a Currier House resident, said she complained to a tutor after she returned from classes Wednesday and found a notice on her refrigerator threatening repossession...