quickie
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We have a brief couple of weeks to make jokes about the candidates in South Carolina’s quickie Republican Senate primary, and we intend to use them.
From Slate ● Jul. 25, 2026
A number about a quickie wedding is called “Midnight Trip to Vegas,” but the groom has already hand-delivered Lopez’s invitation.
From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2024
Lately, she’s been teaching classes on making bagels — not the quickie recipe, but the overnight version.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 21, 2023
And so in September, Marie went down to Tijuana to get a quickie divorce, which was very popular back then.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 20, 2023
Then he went to Reno, Nevada, and got himself a quickie divorce.
From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride
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“The Weekend,” premiering Sunday, is intended as a polished, genre-bending departure from Nollywood quickies, and it screens in the mature-themed Midnight section of the festival, which runs Wednesday through June 16.
From New York Times ● Jun. 2, 2024
They don’t do quickies or distraction, but they also don’t do lightness and laughter.
From Slate ● Apr. 24, 2020
Having learned his trade making low-budget quickies for Roger Corman, Demme has always celebrated American junk culture.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2017
A London film in the tradition of so many second features and exploitation quickies – but with, in the spirit of my project, a strong whiff of refracted autobiography.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 16, 2013
His best work helming Warner Brother’s Pre-Code quickies was 25 years behind him, not to mention a guest shot at “Wizard of Oz.”
From Salon ● May 29, 2012