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Word: decrescendo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Usage:

...wings on the spotlights was unthinkable. A man whose nerves are so attuned, ay, unsheathed of any protective tissue, to the vibrations of sex and power must have found it difficult to have stayed away for so long. The last time he left quietly, his reputation on the decrescendo, his powers drained after grappling with his third novel, he dragged his speeded out carcass back to Brooklyn, the first act of his life as a serious artist a closed curtain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mailer/Monroe: The Moth and the Star | 8/14/1973 | See Source »

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