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Word: plainness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Still, some of the writing is just plain brilliant. In one scene, Oberon and Titania exchange some witty cereal puns: "Let's just be Frankenberry the hatchet," "Honey Comb home, (Although the tag-line--"Oh, Nut 'n' Honey"--is predictable...

Author: By John A. Cloud and Beth L. Pinsker, S | Title: AN EVENING WITH KNIGHTS IN SHINING DRAG | 3/1/1993 | See Source »

ATOP A GRASSY HILL OVERLOOKING THE PLAIN AT Dien Bien Phu, where almost 4,000 French soldiers died and nearly 11,000 were taken prisoner 39 years ago, President Francois Mitterrand listened as General Maurice Schmitt pointed out the landmarks: the mountains from which General Vo Nguyen Giap's troops bombarded the fields below, the airstrip, the hilltop positions that fell one by one until General Christian de Castries and his exhausted men finally surrendered on May 7, 1954, ushering in the end of France's colonial rule in Indochina. "I felt the need to pay my respects," said Mitterrand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going Back | 2/22/1993 | See Source »

...then, one day, as I was playing with my food, the good Lord saw fit to enlighten me with a creative revelation I was eating some plain white rice...

Author: By Jon A. Bresman, | Title: The Collective Editorial of Rice | 2/20/1993 | See Source »

...know I have to live with it 'til the spring," says Luu, who was wearing a plain yellow hat he borrowed from his roommate...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: The Baseball Hat Fad | 2/13/1993 | See Source »

...accounts, the dispute centered on the cover art for the album Home Invasion, which Ice-T was scheduled to release in March. The cover Ice-T proposed reportedly showed a white teen listening to music on headphones and imagining black men attacking whites. Warner Bros. preferred a plain, solid-blue cover with only the album's title...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Iceman Goeth | 2/8/1993 | See Source »

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