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Word: paroxysm (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Usage:

...against it." His solution: rendering the novelist's gush of gutter talk through Sennett-like changes of pace, face and place-with virtually a sight-gag per frame. The result: a remarkably faithful translation of the book that the Paris Express summed up as "90 minutes of cinematographic paroxysm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOVIES ABROAD: L'Enfant le Plus Terrible | 11/21/1960 | See Source »

...sunlight refracted on a palazzo ceiling from the Grand Canal. She grips the hand of her grandson Giorgio and thanks him for his visit ("Now the whole family has come"). But Giorgio, incorrigibly honest, utters a long-banished name: "One of your sons, Marco, is not here." In a paroxysm of coughing, the old lady dies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Waiting for Marco | 5/16/1960 | See Source »

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