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Word: nearly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...takeover. Like so much of the 1960's--the abstract concept of "the sixties" is condemned by conservatives as the root of every problem from drug abuse to the Clinton presidency and praised by liberals as the heyday of the civil rights movement--University Hall has been inflated to near-mythic status...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Remembering 1969 | 4/8/1999 | See Source »

...There should be a tremendous pressure to getthis settled in the near future," she says...

Author: By Adam A. Sofen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Radcliffe Still Uncertain One Year Later | 4/6/1999 | See Source »

Thursday Sunny, highs near...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WEATHER | 4/6/1999 | See Source »

...with Tian Yu, a novel that stirred in Chen both a memory of the Cultural Revolution and a long-deferred desire to direct. Chen could have shot her film in the familiar cocoon of a movie studio. But to be faithful to Xiu Xiu's story meant filming it near Tibet. "The location was 13,000 ft. high," Chen says. "It was hard to breathe. We didn't take showers for a month. We were all sniffing each other. Lunch on the set was always late and cold. Or it wouldn't arrive. So we ate yak meat, yak meat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joan of Art | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

...managed, without their knowing it, by superintelligent humanoid machines (men in black, of course). Even more cleverly, they posit, in Reeves' character, a modern Everyman--a computer hacker, naturally--who may be the Messiah whom the remnants of authentic humanity have long awaited. These resisters, called Zionists, live near the earth's core and are represented up top by the very brainy Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) and a small band of rebel fighters, living by their wits and their martial-arts skills (nicely enhanced by special effects). A lot of what they do and endure consists of spins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dreaming by Numbers | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

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