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Word: ghostly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...like one in the ice palace of Superman's heritage from Krypton. Carl, at that moment in any case, is elsewhere. Carl has proliferated a little. His flagship self is steaming across town on some business, plowing along through conventional time. His ancillary self, his butler self, the ghost in the machine, is waiting in its little timelessness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: At the Sound of the Beep... | 11/26/1984 | See Source »

WHEN SUPERMAN is out of the Galaxy, Indiana Jones in the classroom, and Ghost busters working on their next movie, who va gonna call for some superior supernaturally super heroic cinematic relief? Unfortunately, not Supergirl...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Call Off the Celluloid | 11/26/1984 | See Source »

...Hollywood hostess, Stacey Winkler, 36, wife of Henry ("the Fonz") Winkler, is noted for her elaborate invitations. She summoned guests to a Halloween party, for example, by writing messages on the sides of pumpkins, wrapping the pumpkins in ribbons, and having them delivered by a chauffeur in a ghost costume. She was dismayed, on the other hand, when a hired bartender arrived in a tuxedo; she immediately sent him home to change into Bermuda shorts. "No one who knows us," she says proudly, "would wear a tie to one of our parties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Minding Our Manners Again | 11/5/1984 | See Source »

...rights for a pot of money. Surely, by the way, this explains the dual authorship. The story's weight and complexity are not such that it is necessary to have one author shoveling coal while the other steers. But the combined constituencies of King (Pet Sematary) and Straub (Ghost Story) are a big part of what Spielberg paid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Monstrous | 11/5/1984 | See Source »

...most common error is reporting a comet cited near a planet which is usually just a "ghost image" of the bright object, he explains...

Author: By Christopher J. Georges, | Title: Something Strange? Who Ya Gonna Call? | 11/1/1984 | See Source »

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