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Word: bustingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Certainly she never goes on a bust without a Chanel suit. A sense of humor at work is one thing, but treating your job like a joke is another. At least Ally McBeal gets to make intelligent speeches from time to time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Clooney's Latest Makes Great Date Material | 7/10/1998 | See Source »

Then there is the matter of Bust, the hip magazine of the moment. Created by Debbie Stoller, a 35-year-old who holds a doctorate in women's studies from Yale, and Marcelle Karp, a 34-year-old TV producer, Bust is a magazine intentionally written in teenspeak but meant for female readers in their late 20s and early 30s. It was developed as an antidote to magazines like Cosmopolitan, which present female sexuality so cartoonishly. However noble the intent, the message is often lost in the magazine's adolescent tone: read about an adult woman's first-time vibrator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Feminism: It's All About Me! | 6/29/1998 | See Source »

...Bust, which began as a photocopied 'zine, is essentially a product of alternative culture's Riot Grrrl movement, an effort by new female bands in the early '90s to reclaim the brash, bratty sense of self-control that psychologists claim girls lose just before puberty. And in many ways, the movement succeeded, as any fan of Sleater-Kinney and even the Spice Girls will tell you. But even in the world of pop music, with the spirit of girl power behind it, the concept of feminism is often misapplied. Look how the label is tossed about: female singers like Meredith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Feminism: It's All About Me! | 6/29/1998 | See Source »

...percentage of recruiters on campus has increased more than 60 percent since 1990. Over this time period, enterprising students founded more than a dozen business and financial associations. (Of course, as with many start-ups, some went bust in their initial year...

Author: By Scott A. Resnick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Increasing Trend Toward Careerism Is Controversial | 6/4/1998 | See Source »

...political science major used the occasion to urge the audience to ignore the "trust bust" her classmates felt permeating their generation and instead to "keep trying again and again and again...

Author: By Georgia N. Alexakis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: First Lady Diagnoses Nation's Family and Health-Care Ills | 6/3/1998 | See Source »

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