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Word: funning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...music intended to awe. But the spaceships take an unconscionable amount of time to get anywhere, and nothing of dramatic or human interest happens along the way. Once the ships reach their destination, they do not encounter the kind of boldly characterized antagonists that made Star Wars such fun. In fact, they do not meet any human or humanoid antagonists at all. There isn't even a battle scene at the climax...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Warp Speed to Nowhere | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

...once massively narcissistic and entirely cowardly, Allen is everywhere, but almost never filmed alone in close-up. He's never shown in solitude (though often oh so wrenchingly alone.) It's his privilege to make fun of himself (so that by a sleight-of-hand he accepts the contempt of others, and yet is knowingly beyond it)--but also his privilege to make fun of other people (who don't have this...

Author: By Peter Swaab, | Title: Academia Meets The Loser | 12/11/1979 | See Source »

Everyone's Money Book by Jane Bryant Quinn. Conversational in style and lucid in its ex planations, Quinn's book, a third shorter and at $14.95 almost 50% cheaper than Porter's, is also a lot more fun to read. One section quotes Robert Frost: "Take care to sell your horse be fore he dies. The art of life is passing losses on." The book is well indexed, cross-referenced and divided into discrete subject areas; each chapter assumes the reader has not read the others. Quinn covers the usual ground of budgeting, investing, saving, home buying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Reads to Riches | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

...with Bambino's products is that while the gadgetry is brilliant, the games themselves are not very interesting. The problem is not restricted to Bambino; an observer suspects that in many cases (Microvision and Speak & Spell are notable exceptions), the engineers who made the toys have had more fun than will the kids who get them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Those Beeping, Thinking Toys | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

...STREETS OF BOSTON are lined with kids out for Friday night fun. They wear neat clothes. They are clean and white. They drink beer and shout "Kill the Ayatollah" at an Iranian student who is crossing the street in front of a pickup truck. The drivers smile and sneer at once...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: The Color of Their Brains | 12/8/1979 | See Source »

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