Search Details

Word: clues (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...first problem (after the burning rubber), was the fact that I had been daydreaming and really had no clue where I was. Then I realized that it didn't really matter whether I knew where the hell I was or not-my car was crippled either...

Author: By Daniel B. Baer, | Title: The Lessons Harvard Hasn't Taught Me | 3/2/1999 | See Source »

...believe in coincidences. I really think it's all a clue...I sort of believe that I'm meant to do this. But if I could be anything now, I think I'd be a rock singer. A lot of comics want to be rock signers...

Author: By Sarah A. Rodriguez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Stand Up for the Comedians, Love Your Liebman | 2/19/1999 | See Source »

...videotaped deposition at the Mayflower Hotel last week, she was her usual Garboesque self: a shock of black hair, a fashion statement and silence. Unlike her pursuers on Capitol Hill, who brake for cameras, she plows determinedly through the crowd--never a comment, never a pose, never a clue. This encourages others to cast her in whatever role suits their favorite story line: starstruck ingenue, thong-flashing temptress, duplicitous home wrecker, innocent victim, Vanity Fair vamp or troubled product of a broken home in need of ministering, the kind only a President can give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Monica Lewinsky, We Hardly Knew You | 2/15/1999 | See Source »

After your Italian feast, you might consider rounding out your evening with another Hidden Sweets specialty--a bondage "starter kit." It comes in a little box that offers no clue as to the contents. The $12 package begs the buyer to "Show No Mercy!" You can also pick up a novelty card that shows the Clintons (minus Monica) showing little mercy...

Author: By Kevin E. Meyers, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Shopping the Square for Your Valentine | 2/12/1999 | See Source »

...become an iconic figure--ridiculed in movies like Can't Hardly Wait and the forthcoming Go, and in songs like Offspring's Pretty Fly (for a White Guy). In Pretty Fly the punk band Offspring mocks whites who adopt hip-hop styles, singing, "He may not have a clue/ And he may not have style/ But everything he lacks/ Well he makes up in denial." Irish-American rap-rocker Everlast, whose new CD, Whitey Ford Sings the Blues, has proved to be a commercial hit, says the song makes him laugh: "They ain't talking about me, 'cause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Hip-Hop Nation | 2/8/1999 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | Next