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Word: kooks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...chased across the screen by a funny-looking monster; at another, somebody asks him about his personal hero while he is dressed as Hugh Hefner.  And throughout, the film’s often eccentric questioners—a large robot, a philosophizing guitarist, a strait-jacketed kook and a pillow-clutching man walking through the streets in baggy pajamas, among others—succeed in stimulating the viewer with their odd appearances...

Author: By Benjamin J. Soskin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Penny For Your Thoughts | 4/20/2001 | See Source »

Some will surely argue that we need tough laws to prevent some kook from setting up a DNA shop on a deserted island and breeding superbabies--a genetic Temptation Island. Others will say we need an international ban lest we find ourselves taking orders from the next Saddam Hussein's eugenically brewed army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Human Engineering: What Should the Rules Be? | 1/22/2001 | See Source »

Finally, I want to read a brief excerpt from a poem by Rav Kook called "The Fourfold Song"...This is a poem Shira and I learned on our Israel trip and it has always reminded me of Shira...

Author: By Tova A. Serkin, | Title: Remembering Shira | 1/8/2001 | See Source »

...kook," says Georgi. "He's an incredibly smart guy who has well-thought-out opinions on many things...

Author: By Erica. R. Michelstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Dark Horse: Hagelin Campaigns for Natural Law | 10/31/2000 | See Source »

...major officeholder, but there was no honeymoon. Ventura and Perot eyed each other with suspicion; the two have spoken only twice in their lives. Ventura felt that Perot gave him no help when he ran for Governor and that the Texas billionaire saw him as a bit of a kook. When JACK GARGAN, Ventura's candidate, became the party's chair last year, war broke out. Then came the parade of drop-ins--first DONALD TRUMP, then WARREN BEATTY. By the time professional activist LENORA FULANI had relocated in PAT BUCHANAN'S kitchen, it was just too weird. Last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Not My Party, So I'll Leave If I Want To | 2/21/2000 | See Source »

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