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...maintains a degree of dignity and professionalism that sets it apart from such charades as Lady Sings the Blues. Parks shows a careful eye for small evocative details on ragged stretches of back-country roads in Texas and Louisiana and for the full-dress promenade on Fannin Street, the wickedest thoroughfare in Shreveport and surely the sprightliest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cinema, May 24, 1976 | 5/24/1976 | See Source »

...most talked-about gossip column in a town that takes chitchat to heart. The Ear draws more phone calls and mail than any feature in the paper and is cited as a factor in the financially troubled Star's 6% circulation gain over a year ago.* "The wickedest thing to hit Washington since the last Administration," wrote one fan. "You're a dirty fun of a snitch," said another. A local socialite is planning an "Ear Ball" honoring Washingtonians mentioned in the column. The Star mails a gold-colored ear-shaped pin to all whose names have appeared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Ear-Say | 5/10/1976 | See Source »

...bring the wickedest book you ever saw," Cavanagh said, a little sinisterly. "You won't even see the puck. Or maybe I'll just put some moves on you. There's a few things I've been wanting to try out, but no one else wants to be the guinea pig," Cavanagh turned around and grinned at Jack Turco, who grinned back a little enviously...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: 'You Won't Even See the Puck' | 3/7/1970 | See Source »

...upwards of $100 million), but Hughes and Kerkorian have indeed lent the town at least a patina of respectability. In Hughes' six casinos, for example, gaming operations are supervised by ex-cops and ex-FBI agents rather than by gamblers. But Las Vegas retains its image as the wickedest town in the West, which is, of course, just what its visitors want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: LAS VEGAS: THE GAME IS ILLUSION | 7/11/1969 | See Source »

Aristophanes worships the risque; his play is loaded with the kind of jokes you imagine Avatar fiends or prep school boys tell each other. Any innocent mention of rising, the playwright apparently believes, deserves a comeback with the wickedest innuendoes...

Author: By Joel Demott, | Title: Lysistrata | 12/16/1967 | See Source »

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