Word: zoot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sharpest criticisms have come from the old guard. To many a while haired alumnus, massive cream colored curved walls floating above nothing but glass is as great a sacrilege as dressing John Harvard in a Zoot Suit. Not only is this monstrosity out of place, but it is plainly ugly, they...
Pseudo Pachuco. His mastery of border Spanish and his ability to imitate a Mexican pachuco (zoot-suiter) led him into a career as an undercover agent. As such, he worked all over the U.S., and at one point fought his way out of a nest of six knife-wielding junkies...
...week the cops had grabbed ten of Garza's contacts in Wichita Falls, four in Fort Worth, four in Dallas, and one in Waco. Garza, resting up from his endeavors, looks forward to the day when he will be too old or too well-known to be a zoot-suited undercover agent in high schools. He wants to be a Texas Ranger...
Based on a better-than-average crime novel by Eleazar Lipsky, the film is played as though everyone concerned enjoyed making it. Director John Sturges draws a distinctive gallery of urban types, with zoot-suited William Campbell as a gabby delinquent, John Hodiak as a district attorney torn between ambition and pity, and Jay C. Flippen as a Scandinavian sailor out to make a quick buck. Tracy generates considerable sympathy as the unstable lawyer, makes understandable the willingness of both the police and the underworld to help him out of a tough spot...
Jampec (pronounced yam-petz), the Budapest imitation of the U.S. zoot suiter, was under severe attack from Hungary's Communist government. The government flayed the jampec as a sinister penetration of U.S. "barbaric culture" into Hungarian social life...