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Word: goof (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...should hope that in the undergraduate years you should have a chance to goof off, in an academic sense," says Peter B. Machinist `66, head tutor for the Near Eastern Languages and Literatures Department. "You know, life is too short. Let's make as much...

Author: By William P. Bohlen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Faculty To Decrease Required Courses | 1/17/1999 | See Source »

...storming the Palace by the tens of thousands, in all their tribal, hormone-addled glory. They behave like adolescents everywhere, which is to say they dress badly, act obnoxious and travel in packs. Clans like Anarchy and the DiVas drape their slouching cartoon avs in baggy "sk8ter" duds and goof on one another with "scripts"--programs that let you string a strand of hearts around the neck of someone you admire or grandly urinate on someone you don't. In the Palace you never know what will happen. "The other night I was talking to this guy, and it turned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Web's Next Wave of Fun | 11/9/1998 | See Source »

...English 10b section, I meet many of my fellow UC representatives, who glance at me curiously, many asking if I'm Muslim. Otherwise, I receive polite and almost overly respectful glances, as though people with whom I normally goof around are now afraid to offend me with questions--or even eye contact. Yesterday I felt like a spectacle, but today I feel invisible...

Author: By Evelyn H. Sung, | Title: the LADY & the TRAMP | 4/23/1998 | See Source »

...stammering, crazed, speed-talking Hollywood producer DUSTIN HOFFMAN, left, portrays in the upcoming Wag the Dog looks oddly familiar. He not only uncannily resembles Bob Evans, he even more uncannily resembles the goofy portrayal of Bob Evans that Hoffman did as a goof while filming 1976's Marathon Man. The infamous improv scenes, which have been enjoyed in a few select home screening rooms throughout Hollywood, show Hoffman, right, in a bathrobe with slicked-back hair, big glasses, a stammer and a filthy mouth, pretending he is a ruined, emasculated Evans in 1996. And the President in 1996, according...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 8, 1997 | 12/8/1997 | See Source »

...hope you'll believe me when I say we try very hard to avoid this type of error every year, and every year it seems we goof with one event or another," Jellis wrote. "I take full responsibility and will work toward making it right...

Author: By Jal D. Mehta, | Title: Passover, Elegant Brunches Conflict | 4/26/1997 | See Source »

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