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Word: bunked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...flinty violence that made Eastwood famous. Frontier life was no idyll; it was filth and boredom punctuated by dumb gunplay. Manhood: why, that's just male vanity, and women can be mutilated for mocking it. The idea of straight shooting as an earnest of heroism -- that's bunk too; it was mostly drunks killing drunks. Unforgiven even gets you musing about death in the movies. "It's a hell of a thing, killin' a man," Will tells a young hombre (Jaimz Woolvett). "You take away all he's got, and all he's ever gonna." The punk says, "I guess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Roundup | 8/10/1992 | See Source »

Chaz immediately announced which bedroom he was going to move into--the big corner room with four windows, and not the small one with bunk beds and a tiny window...

Author: By Julian E. Barnes, | Title: Confessions of a Wait-Listed First-Year | 7/3/1992 | See Source »

...Racial and economic diversity are bunk with need-aware admissions," Albert says. "It is the opposite of the policy Brown claims to have...

Author: By Elie G. Kaunfer, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: MONEY IS EVERYTHING | 6/1/1992 | See Source »

...Mountain high -- restful, woodsy, organic. Predock's Hotel Santa Fe, once you get past its drive-in-theater billboard of Clint Eastwood, looks as bleak as a Southwestern insane asylum. For anyone who wants to get suicidally depressed at Euro Disney, this cinder-block shantytown is the place to bunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Voila! Disney Invades Europe. Will the French Resist? | 4/20/1992 | See Source »

...music is nothing more than music (in the way that there is no quantity greater than infinity). Nothing more, and nothing less. The notion that you need to acquire the taste or become educated in musical history and theory in order to listen to classical music with enjoyment is bunk...

Author: By John D. Shepherd, | Title: Why Classical Music Rocks | 3/12/1992 | See Source »

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