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Word: hooks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nighting; in Scream 2, he insists on going that one step more meta on our collective ass. Craven should move on; he's made his point. But look for Scream 3 in theaters next year, and don't come running when the cinema is engineered with a live-video hook-up of the audience occurring in an inset box on the screen...or something. --Nicolas R. Rapold...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brevitas | 1/9/1998 | See Source »

This romantic desire quickly runs up against problems because there is no dating scene at Harvard, end of story. Students here seem to: 1) pair off with someone and become a married couple early on, 2) spend their undergraduate years engaging in random hook-ups, or 3) simply live the celibate life. If students choose the third option, that's four years of celibacy. Who applied to Harvard in the hopes of training for a convent...

Author: By Melissa ROSE Langsam, | Title: I Can't Get No Satisfaction | 1/9/1998 | See Source »

...global-warming treaty must impose strict cutbacks on poor, developing countries as well as on rich, industrial nations. Otherwise, they argue, the U.S. will face unfair competition from foreign corporations. Indeed, the Senate voted unanimously last summer to reject any treaty that let developing nations off the hook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CLIMATE CHANGE SUMMIT: TURNING DOWN THE HEAT | 12/22/1997 | See Source »

...Craven should move on; he's made his point. But look for Scream 3 in theaters next year, and don't come running when the cinema is engineered with a live-video hook-up of the audience occurring in an inset box on the screen... or something...

Author: By Nicolas R. Rapold, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Scream 2' Goes One Step More Meta, But We're Reaching Saturation | 12/12/1997 | See Source »

...insisted that FBI agents cannot fish around in the affairs of high-level officials unless there is an open investigation and "predication," meaning a specific basis for believing that the person under scrutiny may have broken a law. The dialing-for-dollars case had provided the FBI with a hook to ask extensive questions about fund raising by Clinton and Gore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FUND-RAISING PROBES | 12/8/1997 | See Source »

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