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Word: raying (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...League Quote of the Week goes to Columbia coach Ray Tellier for stringing together back-to-back-to-back cliches: "When the chips were down we had some people rise up and do what you gotta do in tight situations...

Author: By Ethan G. Drogin, | Title: Hu Returns to Ivy League Honor Roll | 9/20/1995 | See Source »

Lions head coach Ray Tellier lauded the efforts of the Crimson defense...

Author: By Ethan G. Drogin, | Title: So Close! 28-24 | 9/18/1995 | See Source »

...fierce star performance by Seema Biswas. The film has an Indian heart but a Hollywood pulse; it moves with the fevered outrage of an Oliver Stone melodram--Natural Born Killers meets Heaven and Earth. Most Indian movies are either humid musical fables or languid art films in the Satyajit Ray mold. Bandit Queen is neither. It is an assaultive experience, blistering with ripe obscenities, the frontal nudity of its star and three stark scenes in which Phoolan is raped--enough to have the film banned 10 times over in a country where a bare shoulder can send the censors frothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: OUTLAWED! | 8/14/1995 | See Source »

...physicians able to function did so heroically. They could not know that they would be the first medical experts to observe a new disease, the third effect, after heat and blast, of Little Boy. On Tuesday an official of the Red Cross Hospital in Hiroshima discovered that the X-ray plates stored in a basement vault that had survived the blast and a fire had all been exposed. The atomic bomb had spread radiation throughout central Hiroshima, with lingering, lethal effects on its survivors that would not be fully understood for years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DOOMSDAYS | 8/7/1995 | See Source »

...inspired a parody version by a male singer, is generic pop at its most infectious. It has a little festival of familiar tropes: fiddles and steel guitars, drawling humor and tight harmonies, a pounding melody echoing Neil Young's Love Is a Rose and some "yeahs" filched from Ray Charles. There's even a snatch of rap, square-dance style, as it might be rendered by a cheerleader at Buford Pusser High...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: VIVA THE DIVAS! | 8/7/1995 | See Source »

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