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Word: perping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stars, in public, you should have to be either God or dead. Bruce Vilanch is neither. He is a comedy writer. His name can't be found on film scripts or Broadway marquees or even as Executive Associate Creative Consultant on a UPN sitcom. Yet he is the unseen perp of some of the funniest, most famous or notorious moments in recent show-biz history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Roastmaster General | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

...drama was supplied by Representative Asa Hutchinson. Like a sportscaster, he went to the tapes and chose bites of Clinton at his most weaselly. And like the director of a thriller, Hutchinson showcased the week of Jan. 17 with such precision you could see every point at which the perp could have come clean but didn't, that when cornered the President substituted cunning for conscience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Boredom of Proof | 1/25/1999 | See Source »

...film poster on one couple's wall is for Le Mepris. In English that's contempt--the operative tone in this spiky new farce from the perp of In the Company of Men. A La Ronde for our own fin de siecle, the film offers six yuppies having lots of sex. But no one has much fun. Sex, as one of the women (Catherine Keener, who kills with sarcasm) says, "is not a time for sharing." Jason Patric is the chief sleaze; Ben Stiller adds to his gallery of wormy guys; and Aaron Eckhart is the doleful husband who, when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Your Friends And Neighbors | 8/24/1998 | See Source »

...PERP OF THE WEEK [RUPERT MURDOCH...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 20, 1998 | 7/20/1998 | See Source »

...attack won him a year's suspension--and the services of Johnnie Cochran. Now the streets are filled with cries of "Free Spree!" And the coach, who is no more a psycho Patton than Bobby Knight or Woody Hayes, must be wondering how an assault victim could become the perp. Advice to P.J.: This is hardball. Press charges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TOP SPORTS OF 1997 | 12/29/1997 | See Source »

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