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Word: cannot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bell full of the suspect hope of rescuing yourself, your long-lost self, your deserved self, the self that has been promised by the many-tongued copy boys and girls (although you profess to be unconvinced). You are sophisticated: the meretricity of attractive bottles holding substances of pleasant colors cannot seduce...

Author: By Karen A. Odom, | Title: Drugstore | 12/6/1979 | See Source »

Upon entering, an odor rose up around you and surrounds you still. It is the most delicious and fragrant and sweet-smelling of odors and one which you cannot buy, for it is nothing less than a confused compound, a farrago of a thousand smells. Even could you afford to buy the thousand bottles of perfume and eau de cologne, the bath powders, and the multiple packages of amber soap that lie in tissue-papered state, you still would not have smell, unless you could also the time, the long, bored months during which the smells gathered and deepened...

Author: By Karen A. Odom, | Title: Drugstore | 12/6/1979 | See Source »

...group has asked Carter to speak here, and hopes to get a member of his family or a high-ranking government official to come if Carter cannot accept the invitation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: King Praises Carter's Domestic Policy | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

...second character to enter is a ner'd (Drew Weinstein)--also not in the Aristophanes version--who says he's going to close the show, he simply cannot permit it to be performed on a stage at Harvard. Why? Who is this cliched creature anyway, and what in this tame, already-too-long play could he possibly be objecting to, except for its poor blocking, missed cues and amateurish deliveries? Your interests are piqued; you figure the play will get more bawdy as the evening goes on. It doesn...

Author: By Michael E. Silver, | Title: Pity Aristophanes | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

...decade after Apollo, other space motifs also abound. Battlestar Galactica cruisers must have caused problems at some point--each bears a red label announcing "Redesigned Toy-Missiles Cannot Be Launched." Kind of makes you wonder...

Author: By Bill Mckibben, | Title: Suckerman and His Friends | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

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