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Word: flyspeck (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...beyond a Cash McCall drive for power and money. They see business as part of a cosmic magic show, an exuberant prestidigitation of goods and services. Emotions, like capital, can be risked for big gains or hoarded at little or no interest. The world, for all its misery and flyspeck existence in a galaxy of countless dead stars, is something very special. Here, for example, is Ben Flesh, "the Franchiser," on the energy crisis: "There isn't enough in the world to run the world. There never was. How could there be? The world is a miracle, history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Poet of Profit and Loss | 5/24/1976 | See Source »

...both timing and inflection-the soul of cinematic wit-vanish. Those unacquainted with the films cannot hope to comprehend the fond archaeology of Why A Duck? No, this is a trigger for memories, a bright souvenir for the ages-the ages well above 30. Plus those youthful Marxists who flyspeck television listings for sporadic, interrupted revivals. Other coffee tables need not apply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Four Cavorters | 1/10/1972 | See Source »

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