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Word: illusione (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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The '60s introduced the medium as the message, and the '70s perfected the package as the product. Both points converge in Karma Cola: Marketing the Mystic East, where, from millenniums before Marshall McLuhan and Ernest Dichter, the pitch has been that the substance is the illusion. And vice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Transcendence, Incorporated | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

Special effects seem to be what movie studios think science fiction is all about these days. No doubt, Star Wars impressed a good many people because it depicted outer space with realism and "flash." But since the "creators" of The Motion Picture wanted to get away from the rough 'em...

Author: By Joshua I. Goldhaber, | Title: Not Very Enterprising | 12/14/1979 | See Source »

AND NOT JUST IN the movie theatres. He's reached the course directories, too, and now the bookshops display a new-spawned product of academia, Loser Takes All by Maurice Yacowar of Brock University, Ontario. For Yacowar, Allen is 'a serious, probing artist with a consistent and distinctive vision.' His...

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

Though the foundations did do some charitable work, the Shah invested most of their money in income-producing assets. In a new book, Iran: The Illusion of Power, British Journalist Robert Graham published a 3½-page list of holdings of the Pahlavi Foundation that he was able to track...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Nobody Influences Me! | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

Fanny's daughter Julie inherits her mantle in the play, and Katharine Kean in her role offers plentiful urbanity and ease on stage. Her dramatic posturing is less subtle than Wilber's, and more self-conscious, but she maintains the illusion of the unrivalled actress in her prime in all...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Family Entertainment | 12/4/1979 | See Source »

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