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Word: morticia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Elvira, for those of you are not familiar with this self-styled Mistress of the Dark, this cross between Morticia Addams and Moon Unit Zappa, she is the hostess of a syndicated TV show that features laughably egregious horror and sci-fi movies. She frequently interrupts the movies to offer her own unique variety of peanut-gallery comments. She is also famous for her neckline, which is as low as her bouffant is high...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Wicked Good Fun | 9/30/1988 | See Source »

...learning the real names of the things which infest my sections, I always give them functional names of my own. Therefore, as I sit in a room listening to The Angry Young Man assail Chekhov's validity as a dramatist, I find myself avoiding the unsettling gaze of Morticia, surveying the impressive dimensions of the Snufalopagus in her sweat suit, and looking wistfully at the pale, frail features of the Pardoner...

Author: By Benjamin N. Smith, | Title: A Section in Hell | 3/18/1986 | See Source »

DIED. Carolyn Jones, 50, sultry, sinuous actress who played the ghoulamorous Morticia on television's The Addams Family; of cancer; in Beverly Hills. A promising starlet whose supporting performance as a love-starved beatnik in The Bachelor Party (1957) was nominated for an Oscar, Jones left the movies in 1964 to star for two years in the TV sitcom based on Charles Addams' offbeat New Yorker cartoons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 15, 1983 | 8/15/1983 | See Source »

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