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Word: mama (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only Maggie could have seen Mama when she'd stand up to read the minutes of the previous meetings of the PTA," Gates read. "It was poetry, pure poetry...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: Gates, French Recite Their Books | 5/2/1995 | See Source »

Smoky Night, the story of a young boy burned out of his home by the L.A. riots, is almost totally nonjudgmental. One tenant does yell "hooligans," and mother does nod when the boy asks if televisions are being stolen. But perhaps the key moral passage is the rather blank "Mama explains about rioting. 'It can happen when people get angry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIROSHIMA, MON PETIT | 3/27/1995 | See Source »

...moved to the high-profile time period following Seinfeld--a group of indolent twentysomethings seems to have unlimited time for gab and games of Pictionary. Pig Sty, which made its debut in January on the new UPN network, revolves around five mismatched roommates (a rube from Iowa, an Italian mama's boy, a guitar-playing layabout and so on) trying to get along in the same cramped New York City apartment--a task that is especially hard since they all seem to be home all the time. The title character in ABC's Ellen runs a bookstore-coffee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRIENDS AND LAYABOUTS | 3/20/1995 | See Source »

...passengers we get pretty frequently at the Law School works at the video place down here in the Galeria. Whenever she calls, she has gummy bears or chocolate that she gives to us. She's like our grandma. Richard calls her Mama something. We all know her, we are always wanting to escort...

Author: By Ian Z. Pervil, | Title: A Perfect Escort | 3/16/1995 | See Source »

...this transpires under the shadowy eves of the newly opened Landsdowne St. Playhouse. This is a small, trendy theater upstairs from Mama Kin, Aerosmith's new night club. The sound here is predictably terrific; songs including the Talking Heads, Tony Bennett and an oddly sinister Muzak version of "Here Comes the Sun" deliciously envelop the audience in the mood of each scene. Only briefly in the performance was sound from the nightclub below audible. The set is extremely stripped down--a few tables and chairs--but dramatic, with a backdrop curtain made from strips of film lit from behind with...

Author: By Joyelle H. Mcsweeney, | Title: Search and Enjoy on Landsdowne | 3/9/1995 | See Source »

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