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Word: fittingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Schor was turned down by Radcliffe as anundergraduate, and instead spent her college yearsas a Yalie. Despite that, she still maintainsshe'll fit in fine at Harvard...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, | Title: Schor Is Appointed To Full Professorship | 3/3/1995 | See Source »

Nothing is quite what it appears to be in "Exotica," Atom Egoyan's latest film. This might be a result of the Canadian director's interest in investigating subjects Hollywood usually forgets about: deep feelings and authentic people which do not fit into neat formulas or fulfill obvious expectations...

Author: By Daniela Bleichmar, | Title: Exotica's' Stealthy Glances Seethe with Complex Desires | 3/2/1995 | See Source »

Egoyan's stories are puzzles in which most pieces have rough edges, don't fit perfectly. Even having them all does not make for a complete picture. If reality is hard to understand, Exotica suggests, it is not only because one never knows the whole story, but also because it might not make perfect sense...

Author: By Daniela Bleichmar, | Title: Exotica's' Stealthy Glances Seethe with Complex Desires | 3/2/1995 | See Source »

Tidbits like this fill the pages of History Laid Bare, a chronicle of "Love, sex and Perversity" which begins in 1400 B.C. and continues up to 1920s America. After that, presumably, there is too much perversity to fit in one book...

Author: By Adam Kirsch, | Title: Story Time! | 3/2/1995 | See Source »

...well as tangible commodities like books, records, tapes and film, did not specifically criminalize LaMacchia's alleged conduct because he did not benefit from the venture. Instead, the feds chose to indict him on a charge of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. That was not a particularly good fit either, but government officials felt they had to charge him with something. ``If the government did not respond when someone gave away a million dollars in software,'' says Scott Charney, who heads the U.S. Justice Department's computer-crimes unit, ``we'd essentially be saying that you can give away software...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COPS ON THE I-WAY | 3/1/1995 | See Source »

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