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Word: childishness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...case that last week made its way to the Supreme Court. Facing the high court for the first time is the issue of whether schools should be held liable when students sexually harass other students. At stake are $500,000 in damages and some difficult questions: Where does childish misbehavior end and sexual harassment begin? Should courts and judges be meddling in an area in which parents and educators have traditionally held sway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Playground Predators? | 1/25/1999 | See Source »

...self-effacing modesty demanded of and assumed by these superstars explains some of our disinterest. And, of course, childish envy must also, reluctantly, be admitted. But along with modesty and envy, a more important reason explains our resistance to place the accomplished on a pedestal. Simply, it is nearly impossible to determine who the Big Men on Campus are in a fragmented, complex community like ours...

Author: By Rustin C. Silverstein, | Title: The Eclipse of the Campus Superstar | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

...course, we get to hear Monica's voice for the first time. Guessing what the ex-White House intern sounds like has, it seems, become America's favorite parlor game. A recent CNN/USA Today poll shows that 53 percent of respondents suspected she possesed a "high and childish" voice. They were half right. As it turns out, Lewinsky's tone oscillates between excitability and solemnity -- in short, just like any twentysomething with a boyfriend problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Linda and Monica Show | 11/17/1998 | See Source »

...member seemed to put away his old repertoire of invisible penguins, fist-fights with Bob Barker and Lunch Lady Land in exchange for a sensitively humorous side, winning the "Best Kiss" with Drew Barrymore at the MTV Awards. This time, uniting with The Wedding Singer director Frank Coraci, the childish, rambunctiously funny Sandler has returned to the silver screen with his usual flair for the idiotic in The Waterboy, an entertaining film that shamelessly milks every ounce of laughter out of a few simple concepts...

Author: By Christopher R. Blazejewski, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: WET & WILD with ADAM SANDLER | 11/13/1998 | See Source »

...York Psychoanalytic Institute. "But most kids don't have this inability to control themselves in the real world." The 20 or so U.S. kids under 10 who are arrested for committing homicide each year are abnormal, in other words, but they're abnormal in a much more childish way than we admit when we pretend they had criminal intent and charge them with murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For They Know Not What They Do? | 8/24/1998 | See Source »

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