Search Details

Word: raciest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Kinky Girl Scout to practice knots. Your rope or mine?" NR's personals are notably chaste, but so are those in most other magazines. The emphasis is on "traditional values," on "long-term relationships" and "nest building." The sexual revolution has cooled down to a domestic room temperature. The raciest item might call for a woman with "Dolly Parton-like figure." One ad in Los Angeles stated: "Branflake patent holder tired of money and what it can buy seeks intellectual stimulation from big-bosomed brunette. Photo please." The Village Voice not long ago rejected the language...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Advertisements for Oneself | 9/2/1985 | See Source »

From the beginning, the case had twisted and turned like the raciest of thrillers. On the evening of the abduction, the criminals left a message on the doorstep of a police station in The Hague giving the Heineken family three days to rustle up a total of about $10 million worth of U.S., French, West German and Dutch currencies. The kidnapers used the code word "eagle" for themselves and "hare" for the policeman who would bring them the booty. Three days later the Amsterdam police placed an ad in a national newspaper declaring their readiness to pay the ransom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Netherlands: One for the Hare | 12/12/1983 | See Source »

MORGAN, MORGAN, Morgan, Morgan, You never even had a chance to be the fairest child in the land. You got your reputation right from the start by flitting around as the raciest, most hot-blooded flamingo ever to fluff its plumage-of which years in some of the best-on network television. Why, Reverend Jerry still hasn't stopped trembling from the last time he saw your high-calls-and low cuts. But, while popping the reverend's cork was fun, it wasn't enough. On the little screen, you're only supposed to suggest the risque--show a little...

Author: By Michael Bass, | Title: The Morgan Guarantee | 3/9/1982 | See Source »

Before he went to war in 1965, he is fond of telling visitors, the raciest thing in the media was Clark Gable telling Vivien Leigh: "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn." Returning to America from the P.O.W. camps, he had to ask his wife what a massage parlor was. He still sees explicit sex as an "alien element" in our heritage. He passionately wants "to restore patriotism, especially among opinion formers, the people in the media and education." And he is unfazed by opposition, even mockery of his convictions for being naively overwrought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Admiral from Alabama | 6/8/1981 | See Source »

| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Next