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Word: perfectible (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...perfect exit line for a man whose voice reaches us so many years after it was stilled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Between Wars | 7/17/1978 | See Source »

Even with long, detailed explanations, he speaks in perfect sentences. There is a precision to his talk that doesn't really hit you until you look back over a transcript of his conversation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter from the Publisher | 7/10/1978 | See Source »

...perfect airplane book should distract during long, tedious hours of bad food and crying babies without absorbing so completely that the reader forgets to pray for a smooth landing. If, in addition, it whets the appetite for faraway places, the summertime traveler has the perfect prelude to vacation reading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Summer Reading | 7/10/1978 | See Source »

...PERFECT...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Summer Reading | 7/10/1978 | See Source »

...turned in the seat, pulled up her baby-blue skirt and offered two perfect pink buns. In the dark, they glowed like night flowers." Such high school imagery, unavailable in bookstores everywhere since Elia Kazan's last work, The Understudy, is now on display in his latest novel, Acts of Love. The sex is by the numbers, the philosophy has not yet graduated to the sophomoric, the characters are displayed in all their two dimensions, and the narrative is in overdrive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Summer Reading | 7/10/1978 | See Source »

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