Word: shazam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...note inside said: "You have been granted three wishes." He thought "sheez," but decided to give it a try. So he wished for a Cadillac convertible-and boingg-there it was on the beach. He thought "crazy," and wished for enough $100 bills to fill it. And shazam-it was filled. He started on a third wish-should it be women, fame? These he could buy. So he decided to save the third wish, and drove that Cad down the freeway. Feeling extra good, he started singing along with the radio, which just happened to be airing a commercial...
...shazam! A great black gap in the consciousness of Simone de Beauvoir is illuminated. You see, Simone, "femininity" is not just some poetic veil of man's invention, woven to trick ladies into washing dishes and minding babies. A woman isn't just a man with a dress hung on him. A woman (and Godard's film saturates an imbeclic title with frightening profundity) is a woman...