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Word: tosh (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...subtly making fun of Charlotte or whether he is showing her as the victim of the sexuality that assails her from billboards, magazines, phonograph records, and even overheard conversations. Again, the philosophical discourses that have always marked Godard's films have all been enigmatic; though filled with tosh, they were strategically timed and lovingly staged, and one wondered to what extent they echoed the director's thought...

Author: By Martin S. Levine, | Title: The Married Woman | 10/28/1965 | See Source »

...There is a current and quite pre-posterous impression that Nathan's hold on the intellectual booberle is a sensual one. He is supposed to titillate their nerve centers, causing them to jump. More palpaple tosh than this has not been formed a part of the public superstition since the Sermon on the Mount...I confidently predict that in a hundred years he will be remembered solely for his cravats...

Author: By Robert W. Gordon, | Title: The Useless Art: A Refined Sampling | 2/24/1961 | See Source »

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