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Word: deb (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would be a shame to lose him so soon," says Deb Karazin, former editor-in-chief of The Dartmouth, the College's daily newspaper. Freedman took over at Dartmouth...

Author: By D. RICHARD De silva, | Title: How the Search Plays In...Bloomington | 12/10/1990 | See Source »

METROPOLITAN. In this fizzy, poignant social comedy, a group of preppies lounge in a Park Avenue salon. They discuss Jane Austen novels, speak in Henry James sentences and try to live in Philip Barry's plays. Their manners are ) impeccable (a deb can be paid no higher compliment than being called "well read"), their snobbery impregnable (one boy doesn't have a driver's license because, he tuts, "I'm no jock!"). They know they are out of fashion and cheerfully debate their irrelevance, like dinosaurs analyzing their own bones. Most of them are moneyed, but they soon must admit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Sep. 3, 1990 | 9/3/1990 | See Source »

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