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Word: pipes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There are two of them, and they play good guy and bad guy, the bad guy slapping you and spitting on you. You wonder, 'Where does he get so much spit from?' They dig at your genitals with a boot or a stick. Sometimes they tie you to a pipe so that you cannot stand or sit or kneel and leave you that way for days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Intifadeh Of the Soul | 7/23/1990 | See Source »

...pipe fitter from a working-class suburb of Paris, Tapie carried sacks of coal as a youngster to help pay the family's rent. He graduated from a second-rate engineering school rather than from one of the grandes ecoles that train France's business and bureaucratic elite. For a decade, he has been challenging the country's risk-averse Establishment; his specialty is reviving troubled companies in niche industries. Tapie once had a popular TV show on which he preached, "Create companies and earn big money through entrepreneurship." The program was unabashedly named Ambition, and his best- selling book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mr. Ambition's Biggest Bid | 7/23/1990 | See Source »

...these are pipe dreams akin to Hopper's, and best left at the theater door. If you can overlook the title character, you will enjoy the two hours. And so will your...

Author: By Madhavi Sunder, | Title: Betsy's Family Provides Simple Fun | 7/20/1990 | See Source »

...fuzzy 83-minute black-and-white videotape played at the trial of Marion Barry. It showed the three-term mayor of the nation's capital rolling around on a bed in a downtown hotel room with a former girlfriend who had invited him there, inhaling twice from a pipe filled ; with crack cocaine and, finally, handcuffed and surrounded by police and FBI agents, muttering over and over, "Goddam, I shouldn't have come up here . . . that bitch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marion Barry: I Guess You All Figured That I Couldn't Resist That Lady | 7/9/1990 | See Source »

...This pipe dream sounds nice. But I don't read those columnists...

Author: By Jonathan M. Berlin, | Title: Sox Angst Heats Up Yet Again | 7/3/1990 | See Source »

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