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Word: playing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...voice of Papa Smurf, how did you play up the sexual tension between him and Smurfette...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jonathan Winters | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

...first e-mail, of course, had not come from AOL HQ. Some enterprising (and cowardly) porn-site operator had been looking for an AOL account to "bounce" his spam mailings out of--in this case, 1,700 of them. Once someone has your password, it's child's play for him to pass out, under your name, anything he wants. Sending a fake e-mail to elicit the necessary information is called password fishing, and Holderman is by no means the first to fall for it. Remember, the Melissa virus was first sent from an unsuspecting AOL user's account...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don't Be E-Hoaxed | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

What on earth is the man who brought you The Koln Concert doing playing such penny-plain ditties as My Wild Irish Rose and Shenandoah? The answer is as simple as the tunes: Jarrett, 54, has spent the past three years stitching his life back together. In 1996 he staggered off the stage after a concert in Italy, completely exhausted and wondering whether he would ever be able to play again. He canceled his upcoming gigs, retired to his New Jersey home and withdrew into the dark netherworld of illness, eventually learning that he had contracted one of the various...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Directly from the Heart | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

...present for my wife," he recalls. "I'd just had my Hamburg Steinway overhauled and wanted to try it out, and I have my studio right next to the house, so if I woke up and had a half-decent day, I would turn on the tape recorder and play for a few minutes. I was too fatigued to do more. Then something started to click with the mike placement, the new action of the instrument--I could play so soft--and the internal dynamics of the melodies of the songs. It was one of those little miracles that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Directly from the Heart | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

...Maximum games the Redskins will play at the stadium every year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Numbers: Nov. 8, 1999 | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

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