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Word: magically (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dear Collector: We hate you. Sex loses all its power and magic when it becomes explicit, mechanical, overdone, when it becomes a mechanistic obsession... You have taught us more than anyone I know how wrong it is not to mix it with emotion, hunger, desire, lust, whims, caprices, personal ties, deeper relationships that change its color, flavor, rhythms, intensities...

Author: By Suzanna Rodell, | Title: It's Worse the Second Time | 5/3/1979 | See Source »

...even with all the distractions of my work and my life, I spend a lot of time face to face with my own mortality." In order to distract himself, Allen has spent his entire life compulsively mastering talents with fierce concentration: just as he spent hours practicing magic tricks as a child, he later set out to learn gag writing, performing, poker, sports, clarinet playing and finally film making. He also deals with his anxiety by seeing an analyst, but says, "That's only good for limited thingsI was always careful not to get seduced into TV writing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Interview with Woody | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

...While many of the Magic Mountain sanatoriums have closed and the Christmas Seal drives have turned mostly to other causes, TB still thrives. In the U.S., nearly 3,000 Americans died of the disease in 1977. Each year about 30,000 new cases are reported nationwide; last year 21 states noted a rise in cases. Almost 3 million more cases occur in the rest of the world. Says one concerned pulmonary specialist, Dr. Lee B. Reichman of the New Jersey Medical School in Newark: "It's a classic case of what happens when we eradicate a disease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: TB's Comeback | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

...like walking to the doorstep--heart pounding and skin tingling--on a first date, leaning over expectantly for that magic kiss, and receiving instead a hard, sudden slap to the face...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Lions Stun Batsmen, 5-0, 12-6 | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

Strangely, when Paley pleads his own 3 inability as a television lord to make "fuller and better use of this magic form of a communications," he does not mention Ed Murrow. They were once close, Paley's one exception to his rule about not socializing with office colleagues. Twenty years ago, in a speech that offended Paley, Murrow proposed a plan similar in some respect to the plan Paley now offers. In a cold war period when Murrow thought the country "in mortal danger," the newsman proposed that each of the 20 or 30 largest corporate advertisers give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWSWATCH by Thomas Griffith: The Powerless Powerful | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

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