Word: bolting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Robert Bolt...
Written by Robert Bolt...
...cover of this week's Time magazine is a wide-eyed boy with touseled hair, broken glasses, a sweet grin and a lighting-bolt-shaped mark on his forehead. While recent issues of the magazine have featured politicians like Bill Clinton and businessmen like Bill Gates, the cartoon face on this week's cover belongs to a fictional character. He is Harry Potter, the young wizard protagonist of J.K. Rowling's series of phenomenally popular children's books...
...spot a boy or girl whose forehead is emblazoned with a paste-on tattoo in the shape of a purple lightning bolt and have no idea what you are seeing...
...really a wizard. What's more, he is famous throughout the wizard world; although his parents were murdered by the evil Lord Voldemort (so feared that he is referred to only as "He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named"), the infant Harry survived the attack with a lightning-bolt-shaped scar on his forehead...