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Word: semicolons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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After the completion of Belle de Jour in 1966, Luis Buñuel Delphically announced: "No more cinema for me-not in Spain, not in France, nowhere. Belle de Jour is my last film, semicolon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: The Love-Hate of Luis Bunuel | 11/28/1969 | See Source »

...already convicted him of, Partch sat down at Harmonic Canon II and began to play, aided by a disciple who had flown down from Tacoma, Wash., for the occasion. "You exclamation-point Jim," Partch chanted to the rhythm of the Surrogate Kithara's ponderous clucks, "get your semicolon asterisk out o this yard." It was music the likes of which few in the audience had heard before, but it forced upon everyone in the Palace a new and respectful opinion of Harry Partch: Harry may be nuts but Harry isn't kidding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Composers: Harry Isn't Kidding | 7/5/1963 | See Source »

...cannot write grammatically," says Martin proudly, "I can think, talk and feel like other men. I never learned the rules of punctuation any farther than just to assist in fixing a comma to the British depredations in the state of New York; a semicolon in New Jersey; a colon in Pennsylvania, and a final period in Virginia;-a note of interrogation, why we were made to suffer so much in so good and just a cause; and a note of admiration to all the world, that an army voluntarily engaged to serve their country, when starved and naked and suffering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Why Britain Lost | 4/13/1962 | See Source »

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