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Word: girlfriend (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most of the jokes are lousy, at that. The show starts with a phone call from David's girlfriend. Mr. Foreman picks up the receiver, asks who's calling, and exclaims, "Wanda? What kind name is Wanda?" That's a joke. Yet there are flashes of wit: vicariously excited by David's reports, his friend Marvin asks David if he undressed the leading lady (Yvonne De Carlo--and what an asset she has) or vice versa. David hesitates a second and then debonairly replies, "We got a kid off the streets and paid him a quarter to do it," (After...

Author: By Paul Williams, | Title: Enter Laughing | 3/24/1964 | See Source »

...have seen the boss's girlfriend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater Abroad: How to Succeed in Paris | 2/28/1964 | See Source »

...missing. But I doubt if he can do too much with Miss Gerety, who gives a distressingly uneven performance. She is powerful while seized with madness in the final scene, when she is alone on the stage, but unconvincing both as a brash schoolgirl and as a discarded girlfriend. Franklin Johnson's Jim is adequate, but not commanding enough to save Miss Gerety's poorer scenes. He hardly ever rises to the level of high passion O'Neill demands...

Author: By Steven V. Roberts, | Title: 'All God's Chillun' at Brandeis | 8/9/1963 | See Source »

...familiar. Lemmon plays Joe Clay, a bright, young, agreeable, on-the-rise public relations man--a role he played in The Apartment. The requirements of his job lead him to compromise his principles, as in The Apartment. "I want to be a public relations man," he tells his girlfriend (Lee Remick) glumly, "not a pimp...

Author: By Henry Schwarz, | Title: Wine and Roses | 3/26/1963 | See Source »

...until Thanksgiving for this). List all those living in dormitories not also housing 'Cliffies you have previously outraged or engaged. (This will yield a list of manageable size only for juniors and seniors, or precocious lowerclassmen.) Or list all those living in the dormitory your sister or sister's girlfriend (who may be freely invented) lived in. You're calling for old-times' sake, or the family tradition. The possibilities are nearly endless, and if any list is too long, ancillary conditions, such as looks (which never come into play before this point) may be used to fumigate the weeds...

Author: By Joel E. Cohen, | Title: Low Register | 9/25/1962 | See Source »

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