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Word: nut (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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When he was arrested, Kaczynski was widely assumed to be insane. But he will not tolerate being called, as he puts it, "a nut," or "a lunatic" or "a sicko." He says he pleaded guilty last year only to stop his lawyers from arguing he was a paranoid schizophrenic, as had been the diagnosis by court-appointed psychiatrists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Don't Want To Live Long: Ted Kaczynski | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

Contact consists of three spoken one-act dramas--Stroman calls them short stories--performed by dancer-actors and accompanied by a delectably eclectic jukebox of recordings by everybody from Benny Goodman and Stephane Grappelli to Robert Palmer and the Squirrel Nut Zippers. Nobody onstage sings a note. In Swinging, Fragonard's 1767 painting of an aristocratic young lady (Stephanie Michels) frolicking in a forest glade becomes a real-life menage a trois even kinkier than it looks. Did You Move?, set in an Italian restaurant in Queens circa 1954, is a bittersweet vignette about an unhappy housewife (Karen Ziemba...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: We Have Contact | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

...grown up, autumn is the only season that really gets me going. My heart beats fast when I see a football team take the field in full uniform. I stop in my tracks when I sense the unforgettable smell of baking cider donuts. And foliage? I'm a foliage nut...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: How To: Cross a Street | 10/14/1999 | See Source »

Frothing over with all the naive energy of a first-year baseball nut, I was no more aware of Allston's mercurial weather patterns or Harvard baseball's poor track record than of the learned arts of "mailing in" response papers or putting a smile on a TF's face during section...

Author: By Jamal K. Greene, | Title: END OF THE LINE | 10/6/1999 | See Source »

...should have no fear. One of the funniest songs, "She Comes Home to Me," is dedicated to a highly paid prostitute. Tender and heartwarming, you can see the singer's love for this woman in the beautiful lyrics: "she'll go down on a yak / lick a horse's nut sack." For those who aren't amused by potty humor, save your money. For those who are: "erector...

Author: By Nate P. Gray, | Title: Adam Sandler | 10/1/1999 | See Source »

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