Word: spitted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...news of John Kennedy's assassination touches them all-but very much in their own way. Freddy Thorne hears it over the radio in his dental office. "You hear that?" says Freddy. "Some crazy Texan. You may spit." A few minutes later, J.F.K. is dead, and Freddy thinks of canceling his party that night. "But I've bought the booze," he says...
...funny commercial that shows Bonnie, Clyde, C. W. Moss and the in-laws chugging along toward an airport in a 1931 Buick while frantic banjo music gives pace to the scene. Nobody likes to hang around an airport, says an urbane narrator-and so the bandits, every one the spit and image of the movie cast, scurry out of their car and make their way onto a TWA jet, leaving the cops behind...
...front-porch rocker shelling pecans and rubbernecking at the tourists who came to rubberneck at him. Plain-spoken to the last, he always regretted having given up his Speaker's role for the vice-presidency, which he said "wasn't worth a pitcher of warm spit...
...problem is Perry. He lacks color and temperament. Morison works hard to achieve a spit-and-polish luster in the image of "Old Bruin," but he makes the mistake of comparing him to his older brother Oliver, hero of the Battle of Lake Erie. "Oliver fascinated people when he talked," while Matthew "could only convince them." Matthew had the admirable but unexciting virtues of a seagoing Alger hero. Utterly efficient, he ran a taut but not too happy ship, stressing maximum standards of hygiene and minimum shore liberty. When corporal punishment was abolished, he predicted that the Navy would...
...microskirt so short that the evening seems like a continual panty raid. Her undies scan better than the dialogue, which unravels along such lines as, She: "You only want me for one thing." He: "Yes, but what a lovely thing." If the polish is in Ferris' frame, the spit is in her delivery. She has a snort like a tugboat, she can carve an inflection into a tombstone, and she blows bubbles of mirth that might have lured Ulysses off his course. She keeps theatergoers from remembering that the play's the nothing...