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Word: mortally (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...streets will run with clones and genius oligarchy of the rich will prevail. Barring that, people will balk at, yet secretly desire, the ability to control serendipitous mediocrity or excellence in their offspring. Also in the future: it will somehow be profitable and useful to graft our deepest mortal enemy's genes onto human ones, so as to further the self-destruction of the human soul...

Author: By Nicolas R. Rapold, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fear of Genetics Meets Cellophane and Custard | 12/5/1997 | See Source »

...TITLE] MORTAL KOMBAT ANNIHILATION...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: THE HOLIDAY STOCKING IS TOO FULL | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

...Mortal Storm...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LISTINGS | 11/20/1997 | See Source »

...fires a gun or slashes a victim to slivers in The Wings of the Dove, the sexy, spectral new film from Henry James' novel. But mortal predators are at work, and their weapons are smiles, thin and precise as stilettos. The smile of smarmy Lord Mark (Alex Jennings) says, "He's boring" or "Her money is too new" or, late at night when he's drunk too much, "You'll do." His friend Maude (Charlotte Rampling) has a practiced irony in her smile; life has taught her to walk gracefully among land mines and, en route, to plant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: ALL HAIL TO HELENA! | 11/10/1997 | See Source »

Call it hubris, call him Icarus--L.I. Slim has wafted back down to earth. But he's not ready to start flipping coins just yet. At 25-13-3 (and a six-notch cushion over mortal enemy Kansas City), he has yet to have a losing week, and yea, tho the soph blues weigh on him, that fog still parts a few times a week. The locks for Week 11: The Seahawks. Last week's cover-buster against Denver was portent for a slaughter in San Diego. The Steelers will win, and win big. The no-offense sleeper vs. Chiefs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Top of the Covers | 11/7/1997 | See Source »

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