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Word: bits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Clinton has never even formally endorsed the settlement. And he has yet to submit anything in legislative language to the Hill. He's not helping a bit, because politically he's better off without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton Is Blowing Smoke | 1/15/1998 | See Source »

...just know from being onstage for years and years and years, there's one moment where you have to feel the audience is still having a great time, and if you get off right there, they walk out of the theater excited. And yet, if you wait a little bit longer and try to give them more for their money, they walk out feeling not as good. If I get off now I have a chance at a standing ovation. That's what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: It's All About Timing | 1/12/1998 | See Source »

...British pub, a place where the smoke used to be as thick as kidney pie. Now there's scarcely a trace of it; in fact, the King's Head looks as if the patrons are waiting for the Queen to show up for tea and crumpets. "It's a bit ridiculous, if you ask me," says bartender Jane Myers, a Brit who wonders why Americans can't just let themselves go. "They'll come in here and order fish and chips and a diet Coke. Now, what's that about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prohibition All Over Again | 1/12/1998 | See Source »

...shot on location in New York City, a Weegee-flavored novelty in those days, when nearly everything was made on a studio sound stage or back lot.) Around the same time, Weegee entered a short-lived marriage and moved to Hollywood for a few years, where he played bit parts in B-movies and took candid shots of the stars. Some of them, like his Hollywood Babylon-ish picture of Jayne Mansfield with her teeth and her bra in full forward thrust, have the lowdown feel of his tenement days. But when he came back to New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Photography: Dames! Stiffs! Mugs! | 1/12/1998 | See Source »

...BOYFRIEND Aired 2/12/92. Elaine dates Keith Hernandez, but the key moment is a spitting incident that is used to send up Oliver Stone's JFK. A bit of a stretch, but proof of the show's stunning reach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Forgetting Nothing | 1/12/1998 | See Source »

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