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Word: parlor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...million had assembled there. They set up, in the heart of the ancient nation, their own world within the world, complete with a daily newspaper, a broadcasting tent, even a 30-ft. plaster-covered statue they called the "Goddess of Democracy." Their "conference hall" was a Kentucky Fried Chicken parlor on the southwest corner of the square, and their spokesmen were 3,000 hunger strikers who spilled all over the central Monument to the People's Heroes. The unofficials even took over, and reversed, the formal symbolism of the government's ritual pageantry: when Mikhail Gorbachev came to the Great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Unknown Rebel | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

...kind word for Richards? That is the mystery facing detective Kevin Bacon, who has his own baroque agenda. Fair play forbids further disclosure of the labyrinthine connivery on display or of the detective's dirty secrets. Let's just say he has enough kinks to inspire a new parlor game: Sick Disease of Kevin Bacon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Swamp Sweat | 3/23/1998 | See Source »

...thinks of upon hearing the word "radio." For many, the work conjures up images of a dark past when broadcasters couldn't send pictures through the ether, an age when torchsingers from Chicago and political party conventions in Cincinnati mesmerized listeners huddled around dusty RCA units in the parlor...

Author: By Kevin S. Davis, | Title: Listen to Your Computer | 3/17/1998 | See Source »

...everyone can be a pool shark. If you want to treat your date to the suave sophistication of a parlor game but the Loker light-board gives you seizures, don't be ashamed. There are options...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: groovy train | 3/5/1998 | See Source »

However, it is difficult to escape the sleaze associated with mere mention of a massage parlor. Massage possesses a certain mystique that shrouds it in mystery for most. "My parents think it's weird," organizer Lesley L. Chen '98 concedes, "but most people think it's pretty cool. It's therapeutic and relaxing, but the connotations out there are horrendous...

Author: By Lynda A. Yast, | Title: Knead to Relax? | 2/19/1998 | See Source »

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