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Word: sexpot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1957-1957
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Tomtomfoolery. From Horatio Alger, Satirist West moved on to Hollywood, where he had worked as a script writer. Apart from the usual film-colony grotesques, The Day of the Locust parades witless cowboys, actors, emotional cripples, dwarfs and a memorably mindless, chrome-pated sexpot. It ends in madness and violence, like the others-a mob at a Hollywood premiere tramples an artist, who is carried offstage screaming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Great Despiser | 6/17/1957 | See Source »

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