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Word: characterizations (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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So long as the money from activities fees in distributed fairly and without regard to the supposed ideological propriety of projects, it is clear that these fees add to the dynamism of campus life. It is uncertain whether the council's proposed fee increase would really be advantageous, but what...

Author: By Adam R. Kovacevich, | Title: Subsizing Dynamism | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

But McConaughey is the news here, dimples showing through the chin scruff, drawling out punch lines so you don't hear the rim shot, anchoring a film with enough weirdos to populate a Preston Sturges comedy. It's odd that this movie, not a star vehicle, should allow him to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Famous for Being Famous | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

But Godwin shows no interest in undercutting or exposing her heroine-narrator. The author has accomplished something more difficult than ridicule; she has created a character who has enough flaws to satisfy contemporary skeptics but who also struggles convincingly with the old-fashioned task of being a good person. For...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Millennium Fevers | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

Both of us were strong in character and ultimately, almost inevitably, this led to our estrangement in 1981. We were the Young Turks of anthropology in those days, staunchly defending our interpretations of human evolution. Perhaps now, with the mellowing of age, it is time to break the silence.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anthropologists: THE LEAKEY FAMILY | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

Even by his field's indulgent standards, Reich was surely one for the casebooks. Brilliant and charismatic, the Austrian-born psychoanalyst was an early disciple of Freud and produced a shrewd addition to analytic theory: a patient's character, he said, was revealed as much by body language--"muscular armoring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cranks... Villains... ...And Unsung Heroes | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

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