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Word: plainness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...American Century all over again. Who is that carefully coiffed blond woman staring intently from the cover of a glossy Italian magazine? A Roman film star? Princess Di? No, it's Hillary Clinton. Newspaper headlines in four languages refer familiarly to a global personality instantly recognizable as just plain "Bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton and The Stones of Venice | 12/14/1992 | See Source »

Welcome to the great Bill Clinton tax stampede of Christmas 1992. Corporate chieftains, Hollywood celebrities and just plain rich folk are scrambling to claim all the income they can at today's lower rates. "Disney started a trend, and everyone else is going to follow suit," says Stewart Flink, a money manager in Evanston, Illinois. "It's going to be an incredible run to the end of the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rushing To Beat the Taxman | 12/14/1992 | See Source »

...liar...This is a plain and simplecrackpot." Walsh said the charges could not havebeen true because he was not involved in realestate...

Author: By Suresh N. Magge, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Walsh to File Suit | 12/12/1992 | See Source »

Unfortunately, thus far it hasn't. Bill Clinton is just plain hard to draw. There's just so much to him. All of these wonderful features compete for attention against one another--with no one or two taking precedence over the others. There are those squinty little eyes, all baggy from the rigors of the campaign and too many nights up late jamming on "Arsenio." There's that Leno-esque chin, those pinched Bubba cheeks, the little snubbed nose and that tousled mass of gray hair that just seems to cry out for Grecian formula. Just where do you start...

Author: By Adam J. B. lane, | Title: Drawing A Blank | 12/2/1992 | See Source »

Tommy was just plain tuckered out. Thirty-five years of serving up french fries, raspberry lime rickeys and brusque bon mots have exhausted him, Stefanian said...

Author: By Anna E. Arreola, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Tommy Reveals Reasons for Closing Down Shop | 12/2/1992 | See Source »

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