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Word: tahiti (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...could harbor two or more literal meanings: a glass of absinthe including a drunkard's head, a guitar turning into a torso or a vagina, a bicycle seat becoming a bull's head. Moreover, the ability to handle allegory was the proof of high ambition: Gauguin had gone to Tahiti to paint huge emblems of human fate, not just to see papayas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Show of Shows | 5/26/1980 | See Source »

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