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Word: shazammed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Americans like cartoons of transformation, fantasies of sudden empowerment. Popeye eats spinach. Clark Kent enters the phone booth. The 97-lb. weakling sends away for the Charles Atlas course. Shazam! The creature that a moment ago looked mortal and ordinary and vulnerable becomes a master of the universe. He can fly. Conquer evil. Get revenge. He is born again, this time as a kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Body Beautiful: Pumping Ironies | 6/17/1985 | See Source »

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