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Word: leer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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When women came to his studio just so they could experience the famous Stern leer, I accepted Stern's performance. I laughed at his inveterate truth telling...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, | Title: Howard's End? | 10/26/1999 | See Source »

...weeknights and weekends, a few choose to strip and a lot choose to leer at the world famous Big Al's, the city's neon-lit tribute to gender equality...

Author: By Georgia N. Alexakis, | Title: Sex in the Heartland | 8/7/1998 | See Source »

...Waste Land; but it was a past so disarranged--with the Buddha next to St. Augustine, and Ovid next to Wagner--that a reader felt thrust into a time machine of disorienting simultaneity. And the poem had an unsettling habit of saying, out of the blue, "Oed' und leer das Meer," or something even more peculiar. It ended, in fact, with a cascade of lines in different languages--English, Italian, Latin, French, Sanskrit. Still, readers felt the desperate spiritual quest behind the poem--and were seduced by the unerring musicality of its free-verse lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Poet T.S. ELIOT | 6/8/1998 | See Source »

...shooting of the last scene took place in late January, just after Monica Lewinsky had become a household name. The film's main ad line ("What went down on the way to the top") now had a Letterman leer, and the central mystery (Can Stanton cover up an affair with a young woman?) seemed less like satire than prophecy. But, of course, the timing was just a fluke of the Zeitgeist. As Maura Tierney says, "The reality is something very serious, and the movie is something we made in Hollywood, based on a book that came out more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: True Colors | 3/16/1998 | See Source »

...subdivisions, Sub Shop, Joel's raggedy '69 Impala, the box factory, the sad, slutty daughter of an old girlfriend so beautiful, so sad, that even then, back in high school, it hurt to look at her. Will and Joel are in their mid-40s, which is when the last leer of youth disappears behind the fog of the bathroom mirror. And when middle-aged guys fumble an answer ("Huh? Um, well...") to the scary question, "Is this all there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: As The Millennium Turns | 2/9/1998 | See Source »

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