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Word: flashed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY IS FORBIDden at Cirque du Soleil, the master of ceremonies announces at the outset of its all new show Saltimbanco, "because of the extreme danger it represents to the people of our world." Our world? To anyone unfamiliar with the previous spectacles of this Montreal-based big top -- Le Cirque Reinvente and Nouvelle Experience -- the emcee's remark will seem twee and pretentious. But he's not kidding. Their world is beautiful, seductive, utterly otherly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Le Cirque Fantastique | 4/19/1993 | See Source »

...aiming to ensure that all women, rich and poor, have the same reproductive options, and for getting serious about global overpopulation. Opponents, who will fight the proposals in Congress, accused Clinton of forcing many taxpayers to help pay for what they believe is murder. Both measures could become flash points in a dispute that is sparking increasing violence. Just three weeks after a doctor who performed abortions was gunned down in Florida, an abortion clinic in Montana was set ablaze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Changing Course On Abortion | 4/12/1993 | See Source »

...WANDA HOLLOWAY, THE TEXas housewife accused of trying to hire a hit man to murder the mother of her daughter's cheerleading rival, Holly Hunter is like a clenched tornado. She talks so fast the words barely make it out of her mouth; expressions flash on and off her face in milliseconds. Plotting the crime with her former brother-in-law (who turned her in to the police before it could be carried out), she keeps bursting into giggling shrieks, a schoolgirl titillated by the brazenness of her own amorality. A control freak to the end, she demands instructions from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Texas Tornado | 4/12/1993 | See Source »

...computers are protected against theft with a series of locks and clamps. Whoever set up the security system, in a brilliant flash of ignorance, clamped the power cord to the monitor...

Author: By Tehshik P. Yoon, | Title: Harvard's Computer Wasteland | 4/5/1993 | See Source »

Both Waas and Boardman spoke of seeing their careers flash before their eyes when their stories were initially met with hostility and skepticism...

Author: By Elissa L. Gootman, | Title: Goldsmith Prizes Awarded | 3/26/1993 | See Source »

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