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Word: eyeteeth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...crimes against humanity, losing sight of the ambiguous and magical ways in which novels, poems and plays really operate. (To make matters worse, a lot of that criticism is written in indigestible nuggets like "reification" and "de-contextualizing.") Says Alter: "The bulk of academics cut their eyeteeth in the student revolution. They keep pushing the impulse to transform the country by transforming their students...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA: WAR OF WORDS | 7/7/1997 | See Source »

Before Heather takes a Celica for a test spin, her mother confides, "She would give her eyeteeth for this car." Afterward Toyota salesman Richard Misheikis tells mother and daughter that "there's not too much flexibility" in the $14,638 price. Figuring just a $6,000 trade-in allowance plus some options, the cost works...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Is So Cute! | 5/13/1991 | See Source »

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