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Word: dicks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...television, where the trend has been to keep the killing and maiming offscreen. In one episode of Swift Justice, we see more than a half-dozen people get shot to death, blown up and, in one scene, deliberately hit by golf balls. Sad but true. Justice was created by Dick Wolf, the producer responsible for the far more sophisticated Law & Order. "There are guys out there, 18-to-34-year-olds, who want car chases, gunfire and action," says Wolf. "They are an audience who weren't being served." So now they'll have more to enjoy than just reruns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: MANNIX LIVES! | 4/8/1996 | See Source »

...with my liberal base if I sign it? Will it poison me with Perot voters if I don't?) But Dole's world is changed now. He must reckon with a possibly uncooperative House, led by fractious freshmen who suspect Dole of selling out and last week pleaded with Dick Armey to be their champion. He must deal with the dogged Senate minority leader, Tom Daschle, and the filibustering Democrats doing their damnedest to obstruct and water down any legislation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOB & BILL'S BELTWAY BAKE-OFF | 3/25/1996 | See Source »

...match his triumph before the home folks. It was one of those ineffable moments when the audience sensed almost from the start that this athlete is triumphant, truly unbeatable. He seemed to fly through the long program, set to the surging, romantic music of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake. Dick Button, the unflappable ABC commentator, shouted, "Now that's guts." His less experienced microphone partner, Brian Boitano, was reduced to giggles of delight. Ken Shelley, the last man to win the nationals in both single and pairs competition (in 1972) said, "You see so few performances that will stay with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPORT: EDGE OF A DREAM | 3/18/1996 | See Source »

...cast is perfect. Charles Levin knows how to play freaks. As the grotesquely funny Pa Ubu, Levin staggers around the stage as if he's broken his pelvis and cannot rotate his legs. "By my itchy dick" is his mantra. His gruff screams and almost Popeye-like facial expressions play into his wonderfully loathsome demeanor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gross Poles Run Amok | 3/14/1996 | See Source »

...also been dubbed the "Tylenol shuttle" (for its red and white decor), the "mother shuttle," "Moby Dick" (as in the great white whale) and simply...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IT'S A BIRD, IT'S A PLANE... | 3/9/1996 | See Source »

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