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Word: figuredness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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When I came to the shower scene, I braced myself to be disappointed this brief passage has gotten so much attention that it will have to be a downer, I figured. Not so. In a series of astonishing cuts (of two different kinds), Hitchcock gets away with, well, murder. He...

Author: By Jake S. Kreilkamp, | Title: PSYCHCEDIPUS | 3/17/1994 | See Source »

My friend figured that a bottle full of pills would allow an escape from his present predicament.

Author: By Roy Astrachan, | Title: A Patriotic Peace | 3/16/1994 | See Source »

The new Yankees is Abbott's 125th career production as writer, director, producer or actor. Erstwhile protege Harold Prince, 66, whose first big shows as a producer were Abbott's Pajama Game and the original Yankees, wasn't yet born when Abbott burst to writing fame in 1925 with the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: Damn Yankees Is Back At Bat | 3/14/1994 | See Source »

This was a species called Homo habilis, or "handy man." Appearing about 2.5 million years B.P., the new hominid probably didn't look terribly different from its predecessors, but it had a somewhat larger brain. And, perhaps as a result of some mental connection other hominids were unable to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Man Began | 3/14/1994 | See Source »

But wait a minute: Beavis and Butthead are also sexist and dumb! Those robots aren't anywhere near as cool as R2D2 and C3P0! I've figured out a simple formula:

Author: By Jake S. Kreilkamp, | Title: Wild Goose 'Chase' | 3/10/1994 | See Source »

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