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Word: ies (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bryan, bassist Dean Felber and Sonefeld--leave the small bar where they have been hiding/waiting/drinking and head to a tent behind the stage where they are scheduled to perform. The crowd begins murmuring in delight and shock as word spreads that the band is backstage. A chant builds: Hoot-ie! Hoot-ie! But just then--and, if you're a student of outdoor rock festivals, you knew this would happen--it begins to rain. Hard. Noah's ark hard. But at this point, there is no turning back. Everyone in Columbia, practically everyone south of the Mason-Dixon line, knows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: CAN 13 MILLION HOOTIE FANS REALLY BE WRONG? | 4/29/1996 | See Source »

...with Christian beliefs." And to those who find the very idea of sex unholy, it may be as pointless to prefer the erotic to the lurid as to choose a call girl over a hooker. But Showgirls is cold, antierotic. It just ain't sexy; it's only X-ie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: VALLEY OF THE DULLS | 10/2/1995 | See Source »

...book chronicles the evolution of the concept of boredom in England from the 18th century to the present, drawing its conclusions from close-readings of personal records (ie. correspondence, memoirs, diaries) and canonical works of fiction. Spacks limits her sphere of investigation to a boredom understood as "the kind that appears to be caused by not having enough to do, or not liking the things one has to do, or existing with other people or, in a setting one finds distasteful," that is, she disregards boredom as symptom of depression, anger, anxiety, or other malaise. She focuses on the upper...

Author: By Erica L. Werner, | Title: INVESTIGATING BOREDOM | 3/16/1995 | See Source »

...owners are the same people who brought expansion (ie., massive entrance fees and more low-quality baseball players) to stadiums near you the past season and who threaten to expand again by the end of the century...

Author: By David S. Griffel, | Title: $%@! the Players and the Owners | 9/21/1994 | See Source »

...minister of external affairs is a woman, and our governor-general's name is Hnatyshyn. The First Nations (ie. Native Canadians) have a seat at Canadian constitutional negotiations...

Author: By Gary J. Bass, | Title: Oh, Canada, My Home and Wacky Land | 11/21/1991 | See Source »

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