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Word: disasterously (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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This Cole Porter coloring book, mounted with great expense and no taste, is one of those grand catastrophes that make audiences either hoot in derisive surprise or look away in embarrassment. Everyone smells blood: people in the movie industry talk disaster, and they do not mean burning office buildings or...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Playing Taps | 3/31/1975 | See Source »

But if you really want to go after California with a vengeance, catch Earthquake before the chance is lost. If you don't see (feel) this magnificent schlock, it's your loss. Sensurround--the greatest innovation to hit movies since 3D glasses--feels like a bout on a motel room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SCREEN | 3/27/1975 | See Source »

At Long Last Love. Bogdanovich, P. (American film director) is on his professional premature death bed. No one need ask who done it; he done it himself. His latest picture is, as Variety might put it, stinko. Not only that, it is expensive, personalized stinko. Worst of all, this leaden...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SCREEN | 3/27/1975 | See Source »

Burgess, in fact, sees the key moral conflict of our age as an extension of the argument that took place between the heretic Pelagius and St. Augustine some 1,600 years ago. Man, preached Pelagius, is untainted by original sin and is thus perfectible through his own efforts. The cynical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wolf of God | 3/17/1975 | See Source »

Faster Service. The Railway Association promises that its long-awaited plan would transform what it calls "a transportation disaster unparalleled in the nation's history" into a self-sufficient system within this decade. Under the plan, a private but federally backed company called Consolidated Rail Corp. (Conrail) would carry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: Conrail to the Rescue | 3/10/1975 | See Source »

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