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Word: decalcomania (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Usage:

...cool rationality, much as a calcium-deficient child is moved to nibble plaster off the wall. Miss Terry's style of gut theater fits in with this new act-it-out, confrontation mode. But the excitement of real life does not transfer to the stage like a decalcomania. The endocrine charge is missing from Ranchman, leaving only some pleasant kids making a lot of sound and fury. To what avail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Plays: Gut Theater | 11/8/1968 | See Source »

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