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Word: hangnail (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Viewers were aghast. No, not at TV hostess KATHIE LEE GIFFORD's mawkish reports of her son Cody's every hiccup and hangnail. They're used to that. Last week, however, labor activist Charles Kernaghan testified in Congress that the Wal-Mart clothing line bearing Kathie Lee's name is stitched together by children in Honduras who work for 31 cents an hour. As co-host Regis Philbin flinched, Gifford launched into a teary, it's-not-my-fault, TV hissy fit: "You can say I'm ugly, you can say I'm not talented, but when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 13, 1996 | 5/13/1996 | See Source »

...action movies (Batman Returns) have immediate muscle; women's pictures (The Bodyguard) have long legs. As Ephron notes, "Teenage boys are driving the business because they'll go early and go back again. That's why it's easier to get a movie made about a man with a hangnail than a woman with a truly interesting problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Few Good Women | 4/5/1993 | See Source »

Last Rights is a wrenching electronic cry of rage and personal disintegration, as tempting and raw as a hangnail. You will flinch. . .but that's the point...

Author: By J.c. Herz, | Title: Skinny Puppy Howling at Your Door | 4/2/1992 | See Source »

...article in yesterday's Crimson about a Harvard Law Record parody misspelled the name of a law student dubbed by the spoof "George Hangnail." He is George Anhang...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORRECTION | 4/4/1990 | See Source »

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