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Word: lip (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...while paying lip service to chastity, the religious right has a voracious appetite for tawdry tales of sexual impropriety. These conservative Christians may spurn gossip about movie stars and trashy afternoon talk shows, but their interest in unsubstantiated rumors about Bill Clinton's alleged affairs is more than a healthy concern for the moral compass of the President. It represents an irrational hatred of Clinton and a perverse desire for smut...

Author: By David W. Brown, | Title: Practice What You Preach | 3/8/1995 | See Source »

...collisional debut with Simpson's own offering. Written by journalist Sheila (Amy Fisher: My Story) Weller, the book draws on interviews with about 80 friends and relatives of the couple to present details you'll probably wish you hadn't learned; for example, Nicole was a lip-gloss woman from way back. The book says, `` `Please take that off her,' Denise Brown told the mortician, indicating the pasty dark red lipstick he had applied to Nicole's mouth. All the Brown sisters huddled around as the mortician did as he was told With a little sigh whose understated sorrow covered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TO BANKROLL HIS DEFENSE, THE ACCUSED EXPANDS THE LUCRATIVE O.J. INDUSTRY WITH A SELF-JUSTIFYING BOOK | 2/6/1995 | See Source »

...Foreign Relations chairman who shoots from the lip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magazine Contents Page | 12/5/1994 | See Source »

...smaller theaters in New York City have long been home to droll souls like Busch, as well as to camp cabaret like the French import Les Incroyables (70 endless minutes of cross-dressing, lip-synching and canned cancan) and innocent party-time musicals like Nunsense 2: The Sequel (this time the good sisters of Mount Saint Helen's School play "Pin the Braid on Sinead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: Les Formidables | 11/14/1994 | See Source »

...Nobel Peace Prize ought to be awarded to those who bring about peace, not to those who pay lip service to it. Arafat's supporters claim that his intentions are good. His intentions, whether good or bad, however, are irrelevant. The prize ought not to be given for intentions but for actual peace. Intentions are not enough to stop the killings. In Arafat's case, the Nobel Peace Prize will not be awarded for peace but simply for words, and words without action do not constitute "peace...

Author: By Tal D. Ben-shachar, | Title: The 'Ig-Nobel' Peace Prize | 10/18/1994 | See Source »

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