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Word: scatterbrain (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Usage:

...dealt with, to be talked about, gossiped about, pigeon-holed, and dismissed with a movie magazine's form of voyeurism. It was impossible to start anything with anybody off cleanly. I was (looked) an enemy to the radical politicos, someone fit only for preppies; I was a scatterbrain for intellectuals; I was fantasy material for the dreamers, a never-neverland for the shy, a threat to the sexually insecure. I started carrying around my good looks like a guilt stained Scarlet Letter...

Author: By Emily Fisher, | Title: Goodbye to All That, and Good Riddance | 9/1/1973 | See Source »

...someone is going to put a wet diaper in your hand, pick Sandy Dennis to do it. The girl makes it seem like some sort of unpublicized honor. A delectable scatterbrain, she appears to be permanently stalled somewhere between bed and breakfast. Sandy is one of life's winning losers. Her eyes imply that the tear ducts were installed first, and her voice box quivers with a heart broken in transit. Perhaps she is every father's illusion of a vulnerable daughter. Count her a big funny plus in a small funny British comedy import called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Big Funny, Small Funny | 4/12/1971 | See Source »

...scatterbrain like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Ah, Poets | 12/28/1970 | See Source »

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