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Word: rapid (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there you have the state of gayness on television in 1999: TV has come out, within fuzzily defined but undeniable limits. Since the much touted coming out of Ellen DeGeneres in 1997--and the much noted rapid demise of her sitcom in the following season--prime time has seen an influx of popular, prominent and well-rounded gay characters without Ellen-esque audience or advertiser cavils. Indeed, there's so much cachet in being gay that even straight characters are trying it. On Fox's Action, scheming movie producer Peter Dragon received oral sex from a star to whom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: TV's Coming-Out Party | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

...biggest effect of Anne's rapid-fire existence may be felt next fall. "For college," she confides, "I might want someplace a little less difficult...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tuesday: 11:59 P.M. The Longest Day | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

...pads go the way of leeches. Enter the latest boon of the information age: e-prescribing. A company called Allscripts, with help from Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft, has developed a hand-held wireless device that allows doctors to deliver your Rx straight to the pharmacist's computer. Given the rapid increase in drugs with similar names, it's a technology that could save medical careers, not to mention lives. Last week in West Texas, a court ordered cardiologist Ramachandra Kolluru to pay $225,000 to the family of a heart patient who died after receiving the wrong medication...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Take Two of These and E-Mail Me in the Morning | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

...Backstage, though, the uniformity falls apart. One sophomore, who contemplated majoring in music, loosens his tie and massages Beethoven's Sonata Pathetique out of the piano in the corner. He is one of the group's obvious musicians. Another, musical director David Liang, whose rapid-fire scats are probably the most impressive talent in the group, thinks through an arrangement for the next show. Sophomore Henry Rich, meanwhile, a special concentrator in aesthetics, secludes himself in the corner and reads T.S. Eliot poems into his dictaphone for later listening during his workout at the gym. Others pull...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Behind the Curtain with the Kroks | 10/14/1999 | See Source »

...testing that the treaty's enforcement provisions would miss could certainly occur (and undoubtedly would) if the treaty were never signed and the monitoring devices never put in place. The treaty can only aid the world community in detecting nuclear testing, punishing the offending nations and preventing a more rapid spread of nuclear technology...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: U.S. Must Sign Test Ban | 10/12/1999 | See Source »

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