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Word: spontini (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ginger is no old bag. She maintains her excellent figure with exercise and ensures a degree of mental stimulation with such ticklish malapropisms as "He's quite a piston," "defoliating" virgins, and (referring to bisexuals) "AM-FM." When Dolly divorces Smackenfelt for Zap Spontini, an advertising man and lousy Sunday painter, Blodgett is rewarded. Smackenfelt marries his aunt-in-law and settles down to an excellent relationship, sexually and otherwise. Ginger pays the bills, leaving the unemployed actor time to sharpen his theatrical skills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Maternal Triangle | 5/28/1973 | See Source »

...most chivalrous act is to spare the feelings of Zap Spontini, who has painted an abstract mural...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Maternal Triangle | 5/28/1973 | See Source »

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