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Word: bananas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...successfully sued Simpson two years ago for $33.5 million over the deaths, claims to see evidence of a ?creeping confession? in O.J.?s media appearances. His biggest piece of evidence: An interview to be broadcast today on British television, in which Simpson jokingly attacks presenter Ruby Wax with a banana. ?That was astonishing behavior,? says Petrocelli, ?even if you?re an O.J. believer... if he were truly an innocent man, he would be incapable of jesting about this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: O.J. Simpson: Acting Out for Absolution? | 5/6/1998 | See Source »

...that hurt him, Simpson said no. As if all that weren't charming enough, at the end of the interview, Simpson told Wax he had a surprise for her. When the teensy interviewer opened a door, Simpson lunged out from behind it, made a few stabbing motions with a banana, then leered in extreme closeup into the camera. Somewhere, some publicist's cell-phone is ringing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 27, 1998 | 4/27/1998 | See Source »

Woody Allen (Deconstructing Harry) Sleeper, for banana-colored things...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pieces | 3/20/1998 | See Source »

...haven't heard from any of the places I applied to. Waiting for a response about a summer internship is a long and agonizing experience. Each day passes without the letter and without the phone call while I am left biting my nails contemplating a summer spent working at Banana Republic...

Author: By Kamil E. Redmond, | Title: Waiting By the Mailbox In Vain | 3/16/1998 | See Source »

...such luck for Clinton. What we get now is movies in which the President is a man in thrall to his own libidinal fumblings, Commander in Chief of the banana republic. Maybe the Gennifer Flowers episode of Clinton's '92 campaign gave Hollywood the psychic go-ahead it needed to make an assault on old pieties about the presidency. The very next year the movies gave us Dave. That was the one in which Kevin Kline is an amiable presidential look-alike who fills in when the real President (named Bill!) is sidelined by a stroke that he suffered while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: All The Presidents' Movies | 3/16/1998 | See Source »

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