Word: factoids
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Dates: during 1973-1973
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...words in 60 days, but it is not much better than his account of the Frazier Ali fight which he wrote on deadline for Life. In Marilyn, Mailer coins at least four new words: "fucky" as the description of her earlier roles with all their sexual abundance; "factoid" for the sort of press agent story which comes to life when it hits print; "bazzazz" for what she brought to Diamonds are a Girls Best Friend; and "squiblet" for one of her first small roles as a starlet, which first brought her to the attention of the hoary moguls of "Factoid...