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Word: crepe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lead (1,021 to 164) and much dread. He wanted to put Brown away in convincing fashion. This was not to be. In the last days of the campaign, a quarter of New York voters remained undecided, and Clinton's healthy lead in the polls had the feel of crepe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Democrats Watch Yer Back | 4/13/1992 | See Source »

...join in a symphony of amplified chomping. They entice an audience member onstage for a banquet of Twinkies; suddenly cream filling spurts out of their chests. By the end of the evening, with strobe lights flashing and electronic music pulsing, the audience is engulfed by a tidal wave of crepe paper streaming from the balcony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Breaking The Jell-O Mold | 1/20/1992 | See Source »

...cast, can be best described as enthusiastic. The jarringly bad costumes and set certainly do not impress. The outfits look like dress-up clothes found in the back of a closet. The police officers inexplicably look like Hell's Angel rejects and the hookers look like Barbie dolls. Minimalist crepe-paper palm trees and a funky beaded curtain litter the stage. A God-only-knows-why velvet Elvis painting completes the perfect tackiness of the scene in the Leverett Old Library. But the acting is good enough to compensate for all that...

Author: By Yuko Miyazaki, | Title: Comic Confusion Abounds: | 3/16/1990 | See Source »

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