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Word: orly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Emmet Ray (Sean Penn) is the premier American jazz guitarist. His fingers sculpt gorgeous sounds from the six strings; I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles was never so poignant or supple as in his hands. But Emmet is also a pimp, petty thief, paranoid...if there's a bad word that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: He's Sour; She's Sweet | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

Penn does bold justice to this lowdown giant. But Samantha Morton, as Emmet's "mute orphan half-wit" of a girlfriend, is the sweet revelation. Rarely has a performer mined such complex and potent emotion from such simple materials: a smile, a shrug, an attentive winsomeness. She hardly nods or...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: He's Sour; She's Sweet | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

LEAP TO IT When you tell your kid to jump, does she ask, "How high?" No matter; if she's wearing Reebok's new Traxtar shoe, the shoe will answer for her. Designed for kids ages 6 to 11, Traxtar's built-in microprocessor notes how fast its wearer runs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Brief: Dec. 6, 1999 | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

Administration and intelligence officials tell TIME they believe she was taken in retaliation for the U.S. visa clampdown. Other spy watchers point to the expulsion midyear of two Russian spies from the U.S., and to Russian posturing ahead of parliamentary elections this month. Leberknight has until Dec. 11 to leave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: If You Missed the Cold War, You'll Enjoy This | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

It's not that Russia actually wantsto kill Chechen civilians, but Moscow isn't going to break a sweat to avoid it. The Russian army dropped leaflets on Grozny Monday, warning the remaining civilian population of the Chechen capital to leave by Friday or else "be destroyed." The leaflets offered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Chechnya, a Chronicle of a Massacre Foretold? | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

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