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Word: shlockier (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1972-1972
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Obsession with vulgarity and physical decay? Look around. The bookstores, the grind houses. That's not even sex, it's cold cuts. And the shlock stores are shlockier. I saw a brass statue of a guy rolling a stone up a hill. Underneath it was a label: "That's life." The myth of Sisyphus became a piece of shoddy merch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Holden Today: Still in the Rye | 2/7/1972 | See Source »

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