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Word: fooling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Indeed, the entire squad tripped the light fantastic. Center Brian Banks gave a bravura performance with 24 points while converting on 10 of 12 fool shots. In fact, the team hit on 20 of 38 from the stripe while Penn picked up only nine points from the line...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Cagers Humble Penn in Shocker, 93-86 | 2/21/1978 | See Source »

Valentine, too much sex can make you blind...Let's just fool around 'til we need glasses...

Author: By Michael A. Calabrese, | Title: Massacre of Valentine's Day | 2/14/1978 | See Source »

...could talk like a fool--I'd listen...

Author: By Peter R. Melnick, | Title: Angels and Devils | 2/7/1978 | See Source »

...craziness carried so far beyond the reasonable delusions of ordinary men that it acquires a kind of grandeur. In The Duellists a young hussar lieutenant named D'Hubert (Keith Carradine), an unexceptional man, collides with another lieutenant named Feraud (Harvey Keitel). Feraud is a strutting, bloody-minded fool, and he challenges D'Hubert to a duel. Though D'Hubert knows that the matter is silly, honor forces him to fight. Feraud is wounded, though not severely, and the affair seems to be well ended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dawn Madness | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

...manic satire. Jupe moderates a panel discussion during the convention of Writers Inc. (a "United Nations of literary bureaucrats"); his colleagues include a writer who is making a fortune from confessional books about himself and an author who has sold out splendidly to television. Everyone makes a proper fool of himself, especially Jupe. Elsewhere, Jupe proposes some revisions in the National Book Awards so that every entrant would win something: "There would be awards for The Best Biography of a Man Born on June 2, 1898; and for The Best Novel Titled Love Story. The Best Likeness on a Dust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bookish People | 1/23/1978 | See Source »

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