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Word: spits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three wishes," Carpenter said in an interview last year for sight and Sound magazine, "one of them would be 'Send me back to the 40s and the studio system and let me direct movies."' Carpenter's cunning proficiency, the workman like spit and polish of his low budget productions and his obvious debt to and affection for earlier movie-makers have tempted a number of critics to consider him a clever contemporary heir to several 40s and 50s directors whose exciting grade-B films have been sauvely generalized under the label film noir. Just now, with the success of Halloween...

Author: By Larry Shapiro, | Title: Nuts and Jolts | 3/23/1979 | See Source »

Harris, a professional street pollster, has been seeking the answer to that momentous question for the past two months in Los Angeles, Chicago, Nashville, Miami and Fort Lauderdale. "I've been slapped and spit on and threatened with arrest," says he, "but by and large the response has been good." Some 1,000 people -more than 70% of those he has propositioned-embraced the idea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: A Marketing Squeeze | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

...would like to publicly thank the Radcliffe Union of Students for their wonderful idea of having a women-only dining hall in Holmes on Monday night. This gave me the much-needed opportunity to spit and swear and tell bawdy jokes with "the guys" over in Comstock dining hall without having to worry about offending those "pretty young things" over in Holmes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Sexist RUS | 3/2/1979 | See Source »

...celebrities" (Edward Winter, Fred Travelena and "Dr." Joyce Brothers) judges one of them the winner. The winner receives, you guessed it, $1.98 in cash. About half the contest consists of Taylor's puerile remarks about the contestants. In the remainder, the "talent" competition, one contestant's act was to spit at the audience for about two minutes. You think that...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Toobs on the Tube | 3/1/1979 | See Source »

...contestant's act was to spit at the audience for about two minutes. You think that...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Toobs on the Tube | 3/1/1979 | See Source »

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