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Word: prima (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...deeper, unstated thought is that acknowledging evil implies that Satan is coequal with God. Better not to open that door. It leads into the old Manichaean heresy: the world as battleground between the divine and the diabolical, the outcome very much in doubt: "La prima luce," Dante's light of creation, the brilliant ignition of God, against the satanic negation, the candle snuffer. Those uncomfortable with the idea of evil mean this: You don't say that the shadow has the same stature as the light. If you speak of the Dark Lord, of the "dark side of Sinai...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Evil | 6/10/1991 | See Source »

Lecturer in Social Studies Andrea Walsh, an expert in women and popular culture, says it is no surprise that the pop prima donna from Detroit has aroused the curiosity of the intellectual community...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Madonna Live! At the Grill. | 12/8/1990 | See Source »

...known that he is a deluded egomaniac who told a fluff biographer that 1969 would be remembered in history as the year Donnie Wahlberg was born. (Wasn't there some inconsequential tidbit about a man on the moon that year, too?) We've known that he is a temperamental prima donna who allegedly attacked some Georgia Tech students whose frisbee had the audacity to land near his motorcycle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: (They've Got the) Wrong Stuff | 9/10/1990 | See Source »

Many of the writers who begin their articles this way mistakenly believe that such an admission absolves them from charges of anti-Israel bias. Still others claim a special sanction to criticize Israel by emphasizing their prima facie sympathy for the Jewish state...

Author: By Joseph Enis, | Title: Liberalism, Jews and Israel: Can Moses and Kant Coexist? | 3/10/1990 | See Source »

...things straight. Sometimes I wished the voice were like a violin, an instrument in a box -- and you could put the box in a closet." But the period of questioning is over. Time now to celebrate all those sad, mad girls in productions that just might suit. As the prima donna promises, "I'm just starting my prime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Diva with A Difference | 2/12/1990 | See Source »

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