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Word: nicely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...story. The Ice Station Zebra souvenir booklet plot synopsis, these usually confined to initial statement of the premise, manages to tell everything up to the last ten minutes without appearing expensive. The souvenir booklet also pretty much gives away who the villain is, which isn't a very nice thing to do any way you look at it. The purpose of the above paragraph has been largely to warn you against buying the souvenir booklet...

Author: By Tim Hunter, | Title: Ice Station Zebra | 12/18/1968 | See Source »

...along, laughing to yourself every so often, even WOWing at some Good Ones. It's all very simple. "The Fullness of Living." "Oatmeal sticks to your ribs." Then there's a scene with a guy who can't quite Make It with a girl and it looks like a nice place to end. ("Got to get back to my homework, anyway.") But WHAM! The time-tape stops! Rewind. A NEW end. Rewind. ANOTHER end. and another and another ... until there is No End, only a voice from the dolls droning "nothing ... we're nothing ... you're nothing ..." Then, suddenly, there...

Author: By Steven W. Stahler, | Title: An Attempt to Clarify What Exactly It Is That Richard Brautigan Says About Trout | 12/17/1968 | See Source »

...thinks how nice it would be to be so conscious and sentient, yet transparent, moving in expanding spheres out and out, moving into time rather than with it, or away from it. Dying is nothing. "Passing the time" is where the sadness lies...

Author: By Adele M. Rosen, | Title: A Trip Around With Kenneth Patchen's Mind | 12/17/1968 | See Source »

PRETTY POISON is a little comedy of murders that is full of some nice surprises: notably excellent performances by Tony Perkins and Tuesday Weld, and some telling satire on the current climate of violence by Director Noel Black, 31, and Co-Producer Marshall Backlar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dec. 13, 1968 | 12/13/1968 | See Source »

...have to read it all, but it's nice to know it's all there," goes a radio ad for the New York Times. Not necessarily-at least not for Margaret Fishback, a Manhattan ad copywriter and author of light verse (TIME, June 28). Contemplating her 7-lb., 16-section, 739-page edition of the Sunday Times, Miss Fishback finally sat down and dashed off a few heartfelt lines of protest to the editor, which the Times dutifully printed two Sundays later, right next to the 200-page magazine section's table of contents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 13, 1968 | 12/13/1968 | See Source »

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