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Word: freaks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...control. An homage to the kid-show character H.R. Pufnstuf came close to being produced several times but still hasn't been made. And then there are the dozens of off-center biopic ideas that people are continually bringing them--baseball manager Billy Martin, TV preacher Gene Scott, sideshow freak Johnny Eck, pin-up girl Bettie Page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Odd Fellows | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...hasn't made the problem go away. There are untold millions of embedded chips and creaky old computer systems that will continue to keep track of the date in terms of two-digit years, and no one can predict with certainty how many of our silicon friends will freak out when both digits suddenly come up empty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Y2K Bug: Do We Still Have To Worry? | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

...behind it all. The body-hugging velvet costumes. The name that isn't a name. The bizarre album covers. The man himself, whose name has been debated more than the gender of Pat on Saturday Night Live. The Artist Formerly Known as Prince, and Now Generally Referred to As Freak, has put forth a valiant effort in his latest major label album, but to no avail. He plays his own instruments, he writes his own songs (with the lone exception of a cover of the Sheryl Crow song "Every Day is a Winding Road"). but his extreme image appears...

Author: By Carla Mastraccio, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: One-Time Prince no Rave-ing Success | 11/19/1999 | See Source »

...chalk some of this up to the Baby-Sitter Problem. Think about it. What kind of maladjusted, alienated, socially phobic loser would be available to baby-sit on the millennial New Year's Eve? Would you leave your kids with a misanthropic freak who can't scrounge up a date or a party invite on the biggest New Year's Eve of all time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don't Believe the Hype | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

...warm-and-fuzzy intimacy of the recently designed service area clashes discordantly with the cavernous gloom of the Eliot House dining area. The dining hall does not integrate efficiency and intimacy but grafts the two onto each other like some ghastly sideshow freak. Any dining experience there is a fitful shift between discomfort and comfort, between Harvard and home...

Author: By Ankur N. Ghosh, | Title: Chew With Your Eyes Open: Crimson Arts Examines the Aesthetics of Harvard's Dining Halls | 10/29/1999 | See Source »

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