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Word: absentmindedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Take Ghostbusters II, for example. Once again the psychomagnotheric slime is flowing in Manhattan. Once again spooks are aloft among the other pollutants in its atmosphere. Once again paranormal phenomena (this time in the service of Vigo, a sometime Carpathian tyrant, whose spirit inhabits an antique portrait) have singled out...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Time for The Ants to Revolt? | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

Corbero's work looks fairly orthodox, nevertheless, beside that of the young Scotsman David Mach, 32, showing at the Barbara Toll gallery (also through June 11). There is one object on view. It fills most of the gallery. It is called A Million Miles Away and is made from some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Gods, Chess and 28,000 Magazines | 6/13/1988 | See Source »

In the category of "mishandled" baggage, the Government has failed to specify whether this means luggage that is damaged, late in arriving, just plain lost or any of the above. At least one airline, United, even reported as part of that category lost-and-found items that absentminded passengers left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIRLINES: Up, Up And Awry | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

Where else could a reader find in one place that the most popular numbers on a roulette wheel are 17 and 29, that until the mid-19th century, many Swiss believed washing the feet weakened the eyes, or that the absentminded Voltaire once began a letter "My dear Hortense" and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Miscellany Hodgepodge | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

, Their motive is merely to alert the neighborhood that dangerous doings are taking place nearby without due process of environmental law. In hot pursuit of the security leak, the Feds apply a very broad mop to the drips, insisting that the idealists are terrorists, thus gaining an informal license to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Upticks on the Atomic Clock the Manhattan Project | 6/9/1986 | See Source »

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