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Word: drowns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...film submerges the viewers in the horrors of the Holocaust, it does not allow them to drown there. If provides the possibility of redemption, of light in the midst of so much darkness. It affirms that although humans have the capacity for evil such as is depicted in the movie, they also have the capacity for good which will allow them to combat the evil. Painful, beautiful, uplifting and indelible, "Schindler's List" reveals itself as the most supremely humanist of films...

Author: By Joel VILLASENOR Ruiz, | Title: Spielberg Makes Good | 1/14/1994 | See Source »

Full of emotion, humor, zest, truth...quotable beauties like these do not cross our path very often. If you, the reader, are tired of hearing how "this loss is really a positive for us," then believe me when I tell you that we at The Crimson drown...

Author: By John B. Trainer, | Title: A Nation of Spin Doctors Should not Hold Us Back | 12/14/1993 | See Source »

...hope to convince them that the Lampoon theysaw last night is not the Lampoon that we areproud of...They will drown in a flood ofapologies," Kelley said in an interview at thescene last night

Author: By Kathryn M. Meneely, | Title: Lampoon Antics Disturb Wig G | 12/8/1993 | See Source »

...especially those living in the Southwest, should beware: the aches, fevers and coughs could mean something far worse. A mysterious ailment emerged last spring in which flulike symptoms become life threatening as tiny blood vessels throughout the lungs begin leaking plasma. Gasping for breath, victims literally start to drown in their own body fluids. The outcome in 27 of the first 45 known cases of the illness has been a quick death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Closing in on a Mysterious Killer | 12/6/1993 | See Source »

...They opt for women in every role," even if this means making life for these heroines more complex or uncomfortable. For instance, when playing their own version of "The Robber Bridegroom," "they dress their Barbie dolls up [in bridal clothes and] hurl the brides over the stair railings or drown them in the bathtub." But while the dolls effortlessly return to life, the people in the novel, like the three pigs in the twin's version of the classic children's tale, tend to "get boiled." Atwood's comic parallels, even when a little heavy-handed, are always...

Author: By Ann M. Mikkelsen, | Title: Fairy Tales Unbridled | 12/2/1993 | See Source »

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