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Word: glitteringly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...favored to do so. It slipped a few notches in the polls to sixth this past week after losing to Dartmouth and victories over 10th-ranked Clarkson (15-9-4, 11-6-3) and perennially strong St. Lawrence (16-9-3, 11-7-2) would help add a little glitter to the Crimson's tarnished reputation...

Author: By Jay K. Varma, | Title: Big Finish for Icemen | 3/5/1993 | See Source »

...starring Ivan Dixon (of Hongan's Heroes fame) and Abbey Lincoln, a film portraying the difficulties of family life in the segregated South. The well-developed characters showed that stories about African-Americans could be done without reducing the complexity of their lives to easy formulas. As the glitter-ridden elevator-shoed '70s dawned, the seminal "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song" sparked what would become the Blaxploitation era of filmmaking. Since then, Black film has gone on to be characterized by mainstream stars such as Bill Cosby, Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy and more recently by independent filmmakers such...

Author: By Alexis G. Averbuck, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: NOTHING BUT A MOVIE? | 1/29/1993 | See Source »

Ever patient, Baker coaxes them along by mixing bits of glitter into their food...

Author: By Elizabeth J. Riemer, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: BEHIND THE SCENES OF THANKSGIVING | 11/30/1992 | See Source »

...version comes from a North American cast and creators, headed by composer John Kander, lyricist Fred Ebb and director Harold Prince -- the makers of Cabaret, which Kiss often recalls in its silvery visual shimmer, sexual ambiguity, bursts of surreality and blend of grim politics and show-biz glitter. But unlike Cabaret, which used a Berlin nightclub for satiric comment on the rise of the Nazis, Kiss looks to shadowy passages from old movies for sentimental uplift. They suggest that art, more than life, teaches decency and heroism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Musical Hit For London | 11/30/1992 | See Source »

...York City's ritziest nightclub, Rainbow & Stars, on the 65th story of NBC's building in Rockefeller Center. A cast of seven led by Kaye Ballard performs 47 songs in just 60 minutes, yet gets the flavor of each. A highlight: Manhattan Madness, a 1932 musing on urban glitter and horror that could have been written last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short Takes: Aug. 31, 1992 | 8/31/1992 | See Source »

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