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...well-known outside of heavy metal circles, this band from Athens, Georgia is often compared to Kiss, Motorhead and AC/DC--they get their rather original name from the time Ted Nugent dedicated "Wang Dang, Sweet Poontang" at a Tennessee concert to "all that Nashville pussy...

Author: By Myung! H. Joh, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: They Came from the Grand 'Ole Opry | 10/30/1998 | See Source »

...York State Assemblyman Charles Rangel, who easily defeated the Republican candidate the following fall. Shaken, Powell retreated to the tiny Bahamian island of Bimini, where he played through his days, surrounded by girls in bikinis and enjoying such concoctions as a vodka-and-Tang drink that he called "poontang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: The Playboy Politician | 4/17/1972 | See Source »

...movie and sporadically throughout, is shown unreeling the rushes of a film autobiography (by chapters) in front of his grandmother and children. He is forty while this is happening; his birthday was yesterday. Mercy was longer ago than that, before his impregnation of and marriage to Polyester Poontang--but she haunts the film, nevertheless. The film has been made as a sort of sexual monument, with poetic love introduced only occasionally, each time in Mercy's image...

Author: By Thomas M. Caplan, | Title: B-School Boy Meets 'Virgin Sex' | 5/9/1969 | See Source »

...wise move. The script by Herman Raucher and Newley never graduates to the sophomoric. Female characters are given Ian Fleming labels with a touch of Li'l Abner: Polyester Poontang, Miss Maidenhead Fern, Trampolena Whambang and Miss Hope Climax. Jokes consist of lethal single entendres like "Heironymus lays them in the aisles," or Berle's remark as he rows a boat on a sandy beach: "I haven't passed water in three days." Between them, Newley rants some chants that are mislabeled songs, appears more naked than his victims, and plots along in the hope that some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: l-Piece | 3/28/1969 | See Source »

...hero, by contrast, comes off remarkably well. He is a "rich, rich writer," an "incomparable" reporter, an elephant hunter who makes Hemingway look like a boy scout, a backchat merchant who is "one of the funniest men alive," a "poontang kid" who is "really great in the sack," a friend of Toots Shor. He is, in fact, a man who has everything-including a couple of things Author Ruark wanted and never quite attained: a Pulitzer Prize and a civilized prose style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Badgered in the Groin | 10/1/1965 | See Source »

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