Search Details

Word: skunked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...like skunks," Nicholson admits. He is referring to women who are alluring but unreachable-"ball busters," as his character in Carnal Knowledge called them. Although Nicholson disclaims specific identification with the hung-up hero of that film, an occasional recreation of his and Warren Beatty's is riding around town, skunk spotting on the street. "I know some of my friends think I'm self-destructive or masochistic," he says. "I know damn well what lies in store, but I choose to go after it anyway. I'm courageous." Says Brother-in-Law Shorty: "I think Jack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Star with the Killer Smile | 8/12/1974 | See Source »

...most fruitful years were with Warner Bros, in the '40s and '50s, when he played stepfather to existing characters like Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck and created such new ones as a warring Bear Family, a libidinous skunk called Pepe le Pew and, above all, the most popular animated figures since Donald Duck: the maddeningly capture-proof Road Runner and his perennially thwarted nemesis, the Coyote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The World Jones Made | 12/17/1973 | See Source »

...town of Sandwich, Mass. (pop. 5,000). By unanimous vote, the 800 citizens decided to spend $200,000 to buy up 57 acres of meadows, ponds and forest, including the five acres of bull and cat briars that har bored such Burgess creatures as Reddy Fox, Bobby Coon, Jimmy Skunk and, of course, Peter Rabbit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Reprieve for Peter Rabbit | 3/19/1973 | See Source »

...classical Chick and all of the sudden the little man with the beerbelly is a hulking 30 pounds bigger, a devil bird about to tear apart the cop station and Terry has this big bruise over his eye you know, either from running into a branch drunk as a skunk with the cops charged in or from banging his head against the cage in the cop car, and Terry says...

Author: By Timothy Carlson, | Title: Spruce Creek | 2/24/1972 | See Source »

...runty nosed little bastard, YOU ask ME to show my credentials? And he does step out of the truck, and the deputies could see him rockin' back and forth on his heels, drunk as a skunk, kinda fondlin' the .44 so's the deputies would know it was there...

Author: By Timothy Carlson, | Title: Spruce Creek | 2/24/1972 | See Source »

Previous | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | Next