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Word: rocke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into this were-world has slouched a new sort of creature: the cave-chested, pout-lipped, black-jacketed hero of such pictures as Rock All Night ("Some have to dance . . . some have to kill!"), Reform School Girl ("Boy-hungry wildcats gone mad!"). The teen-spleen movies, following the monster epic's formula of low-budget and low brain-wattage, are packing in the same audiences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Shock Around the Clock | 9/9/1957 | See Source »

...Cohen; American-International). Plot synopsis: a mad psychiatrist turns a sensitive adolescent into a hairy, ravening beast. Says 30-year-old Producer Cohen: "I heard that 62% of the movie audience was between 15 and 30, and I knew that the movies that were grossing well were horror or rock-'n'-roll films. So I decided to combine them with an exploitation title. You don't need big names." You don't need a big bankroll, either; Werewolf cost less than $150,000 to produce, by last week had taken in a monstrous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Shock Around the Clock | 9/9/1957 | See Source »

Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? Frank Tashlin's hilarious spoof of Manhattan's television-advertising industry; with Tony Randall as Rock, Jayne Mansfield as herself (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Sep. 9, 1957 | 9/9/1957 | See Source »

...just given the order "Hard a-starboard'' ("the right bloody order," too, he later reflects) when a torpedo blew him clear off the bridge. He survives only to be engaged in a new rehearsal for death as the reluctant Robinson Crusoe of a waterless, naked, uninhabited rock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rock & Roil | 9/9/1957 | See Source »

...nameless rock he has no bun and no penny. As he slowly goes mad from hunger while a rainstorm unmercifully keeps him from death by thirst, he imagines that he is Atlas and Prometheus. By the time the gulls have become flying lizards to him, he imagines-in the fictional season's most unpleasant metaphor for the condition of man-the last huge master-maggot of a box previously full of smaller maggots which, he has heard, are cultivated by Chinese gourmets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rock & Roil | 9/9/1957 | See Source »

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