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Word: contentions (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...McConaughey plays in the new Ron Howard comedy EDtv, works when he isn't tossing one back with his rakehell brother Ray (Woody Harrelson) or refereeing battles at home in a blue-collar section of San Francisco. Ed is apparently at ease in a bizarre family and unthinkingly content with a go-nowhere job. He doesn't even want what Ray has a quick itch for: to be on a TV show that will feature his real life 24 hours...

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

...seems that Harvard students have to have a right answer for everything. Not content with merely impressing their dates with an expansive knowledge of obscure trivia, they have decided to take the great matters of the world into their hands. While most college students are preparing to embark on spring break to enjoy the good life, Harvard students will be preparing to take on the afterlife. And when Dartboard gets back from Mexico with stockpiles of Cuervo Gold to help us through finals, we fully expect the Harvard Secular Society and the Harvard-Radcliffe Christian Association will be prepared...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DARTBOARD | 3/26/1999 | See Source »

...scholarly account of the plan file is complete without a few critical suggestions. In order for the plan file to survive as a genre, it must continually reinvent itself both in terms of form and content. What makes for a successful plan file? The trick is either to be fascinatingly banal or else ambitiously epic. For example, keep a list of everything you've eaten, item by item, in the last week: "Two Snickers bars, eight cups of soup, one serving of baked scrod...".Update us on your nightly dreams. Transcribe your internal monologue in the most minute detail: "Itchy...

Author: By Joshua Derman, | Title: Deconstructing the Plan File | 3/26/1999 | See Source »

...winner will need a solid combination of content and marketing capabilities," Coyne said. "We have both, and we plan to succeed...

Author: By Kevin S. Schwartz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students' Site Will Offer Literature Summaries | 3/24/1999 | See Source »

...characterized Zalacain's future content as a "very dynamic dialogue...

Author: By Joseph P.chase, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Zalacain to Join Campus Stacks | 3/19/1999 | See Source »

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