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Word: counterfeiter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brought the lantern lower, until its light fell ... It was a pit of quicklime; and, as the lantern descended closer, it could be seen that the gases had swollen within it and forced up a counterfeit image of what it had consumed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The 110-Year-Old Murder | 10/27/1980 | See Source »

...bastard son of Monty Python's Life of Brian had possibilities: Dudley Moore, fresh from his conquest of Bo Derek, plays Herschel, a comic biblical figure who never quite made it into the Bible. Instead he meets a fatherly slave (James Coco), a feisty pharaoh (Richard Pryor), a counterfeit beggar (David L. Lander), an inept angel of the Lord (Paul Sand), a show-bizzy Arab (Dom DeLuise) and an ornery young woman (Laraine Newman) who leaves Herschel to tryst with Goliath and is turned into a pillar of salt. Even in A.D. 1980, the wrath of God should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Thou Shalt Not | 7/14/1980 | See Source »

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