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Word: fiends (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...even in a p.c. PC world, is it that surprising that women find chat addictive? Still, one might expect than only kids would have 55 hours a week to spend online -- the average dose for self-described addicts -- but researchers were surprised to discover that the typical Net fiend was closer to 30. They also tended to be depressed and introverted -- hardly surprising when your main companion is named Dell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jane's Addiction? The Internet | 12/15/1998 | See Source »

...argues Sorrentino, also a friend of the Material Girl. She stresses that Madonna, a former dancer and perennial workout fiend known to exercise for up to four hours a day, combines Pilates with jogging, cardiovascular exercise and weight training. Post-baby Pilates mainly helps to bring back those famous abs so prominent on the Blonde Ambition Tour...

Author: By Alicia A. Carrasquillo, | Title: Pontius Pilates | 10/22/1998 | See Source »

...castle. Maybe as some kind of compensatory gesture, the movies have also lately given us the President as cartoonish action hero: Harrison Ford in Air Force One, Bill Pullman in Independence Day--the Commander in Chief as somebody who can do a nice head butt. Musclehead or sex fiend--that's not much of a choice. Before long the only guys suitable for the part will be Jackie Chan and Larry Flynt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: All The Presidents' Movies | 3/16/1998 | See Source »

...Computer Guy, get fed up with the darn things. Forget about dot pitch, 3D rendering, UltraDMA and other wacky acronymns apparently established to create an industry of technical interpretation. Occasionally, the melee of swiftly changing standards and products, with their accompanying problems is too much for a tech fiend to bear. Sometimes, I just want to get work done...

Author: By Baratunde R. Thurston, | Title: TechTalk | 1/12/1998 | See Source »

...some nice fish-net stockings that could work for Halloween," Baker added. "I'm really an innocent girl who was just browsing through the clothes. I was only along for the ride with my roommate-the sex fiend...

Author: By Georgia N. Alexakis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Kinky Motion: Vibrator Vendor Hubba Hubba Moves to Central Square | 10/1/1997 | See Source »

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