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Word: half (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...simple; she sits down, calls a friend and turns on the TV. She's not interested in following the inflated antics on General Hospital or in catching the latest familial betrayal on Jerry Springer. Instead, she turns on the back-to-back A Wedding Story and A Baby Story--half-hour shows about real couples getting married and having kids--on TLC daytime. "I cry at every one," says the 21-year-old Georgia mom. "I can't help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Labor, Love and Ratings | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

...grinds slowly, but if you still believe it grinds fine, either you have been blessed with an unlitigious life or you are not yet familiar with the novels of Scott Turow, the practicing Chicago attorney who has managed to find the time to write half a dozen books, including the best sellers Presumed Innocent and The Burden of Proof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pay His Honor | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

...romantic, Feaver is Turow's most expansive creation. He has the needy personality of a Saul Bellow big shot and the clever mouth of an Elmore Leonard punk. Both traits come in handy when Feaver is arrested for paying off judges and decides (in about a minute and a half) that rather than go to prison, he will accept the Federal Government's deal and help cage the errant magistrates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pay His Honor | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

...pudgy little bald guy can't forget about it. He does manage to get close to Perelman--the security guards apparently assume from his appearance that he's a relative--but then a burst of automatic gunfire nearly cuts him in half. The security guards later tell police that they shot because one of them thought he'd spotted a Javanese garroting device inside the pudgy little bald guy's jacket. When the police turn him over, of course, it turns out to have been a tape measure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: She Likes Ron for Ron! | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

...bottom. So we will wet cast and roll cast instead, with little weights on the line and flies that look like nymphs. Roll casting requires less arm movement. You swing out the line upriver and let it drift down in a natural motion. I find I'm not half bad at this, thanks wholly to Chouinard, who is as aware of the process in teaching as in everything else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YVON CHOUINARD: Reaching the Top by Doing the Right Thing | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

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