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Word: prowls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Watch out! The anti-democratic forces are on the prowl once again. Crusaders for term limits claim to have the public interest in mind. Yet their agenda conceals an unwillingness to confront the real problems of contemporary politics...

Author: By Ethan M. Tucker, | Title: Vote the Bums Out | 10/26/1994 | See Source »

Cuba and Haiti are adjoining Caribbean countries ruled by dictatorships hostile to the U.S., and lately Washington has followed nearly identical policies toward them. It has enforced tight embargoes against trade and travel and even sent warships to prowl off both coasts. Starting last month, refugees fleeing both islands have been plucked from the waters off Florida and interned in side-by-side tent cities at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Good Cop, Bad Cop | 9/12/1994 | See Source »

...glimpses, as when Max and her clan gossip about lesbians in history, from k.d. lang all the way back to Eve. At heart, though, Go Fish is a chummy date movie about the mundane, urgent business of finding a lover. Max could be any teen on the Friday-night prowl, but with a nice bending of Hollywood theology: girl meets girl, girl gets girl, nobody goes berserk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: The Little Movies That Could | 9/12/1994 | See Source »

Bobby S. Fred also uses an alias to run an independent record label -- which he refuses to name -- and to edit a post-punk zine called Bobby Is Fred. He makes his living stuffing burritos at a Del Taco in Los Angeles. Unlike wannabes who prowl Sunset Plaza looking to get noticed, Bobby craves obscurity. He enjoys saying his favorite activity is eating at such trendy restaurants as Spago -- by serving himself from the Dumpster out back. "Look, this is a nation of disenfranchised kids," says Bobby. "The reason we don't talk to the mainstream media is because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IDEAS: Zine But Not Heard | 9/5/1994 | See Source »

...perfect marriage it may be, but the wedding day is far off, and rival swains are surely on the prowl. Right now CBS looks like a pretty blond in a lowcut dress who goes to a singles bar to announce her engagement. The leaking of the news so far in advance of the board meeting suggests at least that Tisch intends to consider other offers, which would further inflate the stock. One CBS executive admitted that Tisch went public with the merger news because "he fervently believes in doing a deal that makes the best sense for the shareholder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Barry and Larry Show | 7/11/1994 | See Source »

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