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Word: quirks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gave me a starting point." Or that Stalin (an Emmy-winning HBO turn) could force himself to talk sympathetically to his daughter--"I felt that was as good a work as I've done." So to get inside America's greatest underrated actor, we should look for that secret quirk, that strange but true passion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Divine Inspiration | 1/26/1998 | See Source »

Director of the Core Program Susan W. Lewis said that as the Core was being developed, the original Science Subcommittee noticed a quirk: departments were allowing students to test out of introductory courses using A.P. scores. But while actually taking these courses sufficed for Core credit, the A.P. scores...

Author: By David A. Fahrenthold and Chana R. Schoenberger, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Committee Axes A.P. Credits As Science Core Bypass | 12/4/1997 | See Source »

...There are no secrets revealed herein on the logistics of rearin' up such a brood; rather the film stages a mythic, comic, quirk-riddled ballet all aswirl around young Nathan Jr., one of moviedom's most-sought babies. Seen it already? See it again. A cult classic with its own genre that makes the heralded Fargo look like Baby's Day Out. Very, very dear to the Couch Potato Man's bulbous brown heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bringing Up Couch Potato | 11/21/1997 | See Source »

...doctors will remove about a quart of her marrow to be transplanted into a young patient dying of leukemia. She has never met the patient, who lives in Europe. They do not even know each other's names. They have been brought together by a computer search, by the quirk of a few shared genetic traits and, above all, by Majewski's kindness and courage, her willingness to endure a painful procedure in the hope of saving the life of a perfect stranger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BEYOND THE CALL | 10/1/1997 | See Source »

...reprocessing of what the author calls the "best parts" of an unpublished novel that did not work. This revision is a mix of autobiographical bits, plot concepts, barbershop cynicism and romantic idealism, all loosely tied together by a standard science-fiction device: on Feb. 13, 2001, a quirk in space-time flips the calendar back 10 years to Feb. 17, 1991. From that moment, everyone in the world is fated to repeat the decade in every living detail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: VONNGUT: TIME WARPED | 9/29/1997 | See Source »

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