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Word: ac (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other moments he seems decid ed to be a true sorcerer or bust. "Power takes care of you," he says, "and you don't know how. Now I'm at the edge, and I have to change my whole format. Writing to get my Ph.D. was my ac complishment, my sorcery, and now I am at the apex of a cycle that includes the notoriety. But this is the last thing I will ever write about Don Juan. Now I am going to be a sorcerer for sure. Only my death could stop that." It is a ro mantic role...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don Juan and the Sorcerer's Apprentice | 3/5/1973 | See Source »

...entirely other affair. Jack must either exchange his rabid Christliness for an attitude more suited to his title and place, or the family, still intent on straight-jacketing Jack, will have its way. Jack's psychiatrist engineers his patient's conversion in a perfectly improbable scene (complete with an AC-DC electric God and none less than King Kong) and with this extravagant cinematic trump, the movie turns into a deadly serious affair...

Author: By Alice VAN Buren, | Title: The Mad Prince of Privilege | 3/5/1973 | See Source »

Magister atque sui quattuor discipuli narraverunt fabulam de Daimone, filio regis Herakleiae, qui peregrinatus est per mare Aegeum. Contra piratas ac serpentes maritimos pugnavit, et implicatus est cum deis, et centauris, et equis alatis. Case dixit: "Postremo erat magna disputatio de questione num Daimon deberet moriri in tempestate modo herois. Discipuli arguerunt Dai-monem dignum esse ut viveret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Daimon Omnia Vincit | 8/28/1972 | See Source »

...there are fleeting moments of perception, as when a manager carelessly tosses a pair of newly bloodied trunks to another fighter, or when Tully stands in front of the mirror trying on some seedy clothes belonging to his girl's former lover. Hus ton also apparently abandoned his ac tors. Keach looks far too intelligent for the part. Although he does many tech nical things splendidly, he lacks emo tional force. Bridges, who was fine in The Last Picture Show, is at loose ends here, and Actress Tyrell's grandstand histrionics turn a surefire part into a Raggedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Overweight | 8/7/1972 | See Source »

...bubble" generated by Rivet Ace, a highly classified system designed to snarl the latest model enemy missile radars. Fighters flying as low as 200 feet can be programmed to jerk into a sudden, evasive barrel roll the moment they are picked up by SAM radar. Over enemy infiltration routes, AC-130 Spectre gunships lay down a barrage of fire when the presence of troops is revealed by tiny air-dropped sensors no larger than a twig, including magnetic metal detectors and "people sniffers" that respond electronically to the smell of ammonia in urine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Harrowing War in the Air | 5/1/1972 | See Source »

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