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Word: craps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...humiliating and embarrassing. If you're going to base an entire performance on agonizing moments, then they had better be totally outrageous. This is clearly where Kron falls short. But we forgive poor, put-upon Lisa, admire her candor and laugh easily because it's nice to hear about crap happening to other people once in a while...

Author: By Fabian Giraldo, | Title: Squirming as Lisa Kron Eats Crow at Loeb | 10/5/1995 | See Source »

...pitch time at a movie-studio story conference, and two junior execs simultaneously jump up on the table and announce: "This one has everything! A desperate battle for survival! Mother Nature on a rampage! Heroic attempts to achieve the impossible! A psychological crap shoot with zillions at stake! And, at the center, a stark battle between two strong-willed men. It's got the potential for great movie melodrama. We call it The Making of Waterworld...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHAT A WORLD! | 7/31/1995 | See Source »

Gritz: That's due to Mark Koernke's crap. When I was a young flight officer, I don't know how many times I circled around water towers trying to figure out where the hell I was at 500 ft. I'm sure glad some idiot wasn't out there thinking I was the Russians and shooting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: James (Bo) Gritz: ON THE MODERATE FRINGE | 6/26/1995 | See Source »

Guys and Dolls centers on a group of friendly neighborhood thugs hell-bent on finding a place to hold "the oldest established traveling floating crap game in New York...

Author: By Danielle E. Kwatinetz, | Title: Nice Guys (and Dolls) Finish First | 5/4/1995 | See Source »

...house residents--from undergraduates, to the Master himself, Professor Jurij Striedter, cast as the growling Big Julie. Striedter, one of the highlights of the show, swaggers across the stage with a huge cigar in his clenched teeth, roaring the occasional, "I came here to shoot crap. Let's shoot crap," in a New York accent that sound curiously German...

Author: By Danielle E. Kwatinetz, | Title: Nice Guys (and Dolls) Finish First | 5/4/1995 | See Source »

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