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Word: devoide (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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After saying yes, Fox went looking for a partner to share the risk, and possible reward, of a period piece replete with effects but devoid of major stars. Partnering on big pictures is increasingly common--Braveheart and Starship Troopers were team efforts--but the pitfalls are dramatically manifest in the feuding over Titanic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: TRYING TO STAY AFLOAT | 12/8/1997 | See Source »

...hands of Shrier, the delivery seems outlandish in its seriousness, as if a strange corruption in the play's text--devoid of any ambiguous undertones that would point up the doctor's assumed staidness, perhaps self-consciously realized as false, perhaps not. Instead, it becomes another prescription, and the questioning yet fascinated look from Sylvia seems almost camp, as the moment of connection slips away...

Author: By Nicolas R. Rapold, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: And It Feels Just Like I'm Walking on... | 11/14/1997 | See Source »

...exceptions, none of the players have any rugby experience, and step onto the field for the first time with absolutely no idea of how to play the game. But after only a few weeks on the team, it becomes almost impossible for them to envision a college experience devoid of the sport...

Author: By Katherine E. Wagner, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Radcliffe Rugby Team Combines Winning, Family Environment | 10/16/1997 | See Source »

Along with the final track, the album is completely devoid of emotional content--a record of a man sitting in a room pushing buttons. Knox has a healthy urge to experiment, but when his self-indulgent nature takes over completely, the result isn't pretty...

Author: By Jordan I. Fox, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Repetitive and Self-Indulgent Ramblings | 10/10/1997 | See Source »

...Stone of old did make an appearance in the question-and-answer session. Warming to the audience, he ripped into modern American culture with zest, blaming the spiritually devoid lives of teens on pervasive media-influenced materialism. On the Block-buster Video and Wal-Mart policies forbidding NC-17 videos and many CD's: "I personally would like to blow up Blockbuster...I would like to nuke Wal-Mart...

Author: By Jordan I. Fox, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Oliver Stone Hits the Couch at HFA | 10/3/1997 | See Source »

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