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Tarzan
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  • He only wore a piece of cloth around his middle, like Tarzan, so we could see his hairy legs and belly and back and arms.†   (source)
  • My brother and I played often in our jungle, even pretending to be Tarzan (Rano mastered the Tarzan yell from the movies).†   (source)
  • He was imitating Tarzan and going AaaaaaaaayaaaaaaaaaH!†   (source)
  • He had never been in such a place, and until this moment he had thought that the most luxurious spot imaginable was the movie house in San Lucas, where the schoolteacher had once taken the whole class to see a Tarzan movie.†   (source)
  • And he started calling elephants like Tarzan does in the movie, "Aghhh-uhhhh-uhhhh-uhhhhhhh-hh—"†   (source)
  • His eyes were dark and a little ferocious when he wasn't smiling—kind of a Tarzan look, if Tarzan came in extra-small Latino.†   (source)
  • I felt like Tarzan.†   (source)
  • All anyone seems to know about when it comes to Africa is Tarzan MAMA.†   (source)
  • It kind of makes him look like Tarzan, don't you think?†   (source)
  • They were studying the Creation and the Fall of Man, lesson five in the Baltimore Catechism, and Sister pointed to a picture in the book of a man and woman standing more or less undressed beneath an apple tree with a serpent coiled on a limb and she called on Michael Kalenka and asked him to identify the man and woman, the easiest question she'd ever asked, and Michael Kalenka stood up and looked at the picture, and he thought and looked and thought, and Sister said, "The original parents of us all," and Michael Kalenka thought and grinned and said, "Tarzan and Jane."†   (source)
  • They couldn't touch him because he was Tarzan, Mandrake, Flash Gordon.†   (source)
  • There was a water-damaged Faulkner, and the nearly complete set of Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan.†   (source)
  • Now he's Tarzan beating his chest and yelling.†   (source)
  • We could be like Tarzan and Jane, swinging through a jungle, snagging bananas right off a tree, living at one with nature, la-di-da Tarzan and Jane and their band of merry mutants!†   (source)
  • People who'd never been closer to Africa than a Tarzan movie were speaking broken Swahili.†   (source)
  • Tarzan country, Eddie Lazzutti called it.†   (source)
  • I felt like a combination of Tarzan and Romeo.†   (source)
  • It was supposed to be for Tarzan.†   (source)
  • I felt that dressing Star was like putting a paint job on the crown jewels—but I was forced to admit that, if we were not to do the "Me Tarzan, you Jane" bit right in that dell from then on till death do us part, then clothes of some sort, if only to keep her perfect skin from getting scratched by brambles, were needed.†   (source)
  • He played the character parts formerly thrust upon me— the ape in Tarzan, Mr. Crabtree in The Rover Boys, Mr. Damon in Tom Swift.   (source)
  • I never thought it as much fun as Tarzan, and I played that summer with more than vague anxiety despite Jem's assurances that Boo Radley was dead and nothing would get me, with him and Calpurnia there in the daytime and Atticus home at night.   (source)
  • Owen was also critical of Tarzan movies.†   (source)
  • Tarzan fit this formula—and so did the dreaded biblical epics.†   (source)
  • The Idaho was partial to Tarzan films, and—increasingly—to biblical epics.†   (source)
  • "He says he went to a party for Tarzan, in Los Angeles," he said dully.†   (source)
  • Nobody mentioned Tarzan all night long, and I never saw him.†   (source)
  • If they get numerous enough and too persistent, he'll have to start swinging from vine to vine, like Tarzan.†   (source)
  • He runs up and down the backyard with no pants on trying to imitate Tarzan yodeling from tree to tree.†   (source)
  • I don't have to sit up in the gods anymore with people all around me cheering on the Indians killing General Custer and the Africans chasing Tarzan all over the jungle.†   (source)
  • They're very grand now the way they pay sixpence or even a shilling for seats at the Savoy Cinema where you'll meet a better class of people than the lower classes who fill the tuppenny seats in the gods at the Lyric Cinema and are never done shouting at the screen, the kind of people if you don't mind who are liable to cheer on the Africans when they throw spears at Tarzan or the Indians when they're scalping the United States Cavalry.†   (source)
  • Where's Tarzan?†   (source)
  • IT PROBABLY LOVES TARZAN!†   (source)
  • Tarzan!" she yelled.†   (source)
  • "You can't be Tarzan," said Jem.†   (source)
  • I think it's so sad the way our American Negroes don't know nothing about Africa 'cept Tarzan and all that.†   (source)
  • Me go down to Tarzan.†   (source)
  • Let's play Tarzan today.†   (source)
  • I'm gonna be Tarzan.†   (source)
  • 'Is this the Tarzan party?'†   (source)
  • The other side now, viejo," he shouted up to Anselmo and climbed across through the trestling, like a bloody Tarzan in a rolled steel forest, he thought, and then coming out from under the dark, the stream tumbling below him, he looked up and saw Anselmo's face as he reached the packages of explosive down to him.†   (source)
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