Word: tsk
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
STRANGE MEN write plays. Their heads fill with babbling voices that plague them when they eat, distract them when they speak and "tsk" when they make love. No matter how many plays a man writes, some of these internal voices refuse to die. They are his "family" voices, the voices of growing...
...just Marjoe's Pentecostalist crowds who are exploited, demeaned and manipulated. In Manhattan, where Marjoe is playing to sizable crowds, the reactions are different from those in the gospel big-tops but just as predictable: a lot of laughter, a good deal of patronizing liberal headshaking, a general tsk-tsking over the sorry state of religion. "Look," Marjoe seems to tell the world, "religious people are just as bad as we are." So are some film makers...
...Matador, which the studies found meant virility and excitement to consumers. Last week A.M.C. introduced its Matador in Puerto Rico-and ran right into language trouble. Matador, it turns out, is the Spanish word for killer, hardly a good selling point. In an editorial, the daily San Juan Star tsk-tsked: "We suggest that the name is an unfortunate choice" for Puerto Rico, which has "an unusually high traffic fatality rate...