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The title story, a fantastic riff upon a fantasy, almost duplicates Fitzgerald’s for a few sentences but goes off weirdly in its own directions.

And when this fantastic house of cards finally collapsed, MacGregor spent a grand total of eight months in a French prison.

Did Paltrow ever feel that?'Oh my gosh!No, no... But in the 1950s, you know, the modern British revolution hadn't happened and you couldn't get a fantastic meal, and great plumbing, and good heating - all the stuff that would make England feel dark and dank compared to America.

Last year the NBA offered up fantastic entertainment.

The team spirit was fantastic.

“Don was fantastic, the master of man management.

"What?" "I know it sounds fantastic, Mr. President.

I was waiting for some super fantastic sales fandango but it never materialized... except for the pluck of one dude: Sam.

"I call ze conshtable!" Then something utterly fantastic happened.

These fantastic objects have such strong gravitational fields that even light cannot escape from their surfaces.

Rather, in the manner of some of those fantastic invented tales, I had been somewhat thrown out into the world—a world whose ever-widening rings started from the little earthly paradise of New Rochelle, third stop on the commuter rail lines through the Westchester suburbs of New York City.

Like many other little girls my age, I put myself center stage as a cowgirl, a ballerina, or a nurse, but my imagination drew me more often to the realm of the fantastic.

It was a little like Strawberry Hill in appearance and if not quite so airy and fantastic in its architecture, was quite as turreted and castellated'.

The source of fantastic narratives is often this secret, the fantasist using a concealment to hint at the truth, but always skirting the fundamental story.

One newly minted mortarman, who refused to give his name, said he thought the president was doing a fantastic job and that the United States would triumph since it had "the strongest Army in the world."

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