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Word: redeemable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...three, bop." The new funnywomen are anything but rote jokesters: like Robin Williams or Billy Crystal,they invent routines as they go along. Paula Poundstone, whose stand-up is a sprawl across a stool, ad-libs about 30% every night. When she was too broke to redeem her outfits from the dry cleaner's, she included the angst in her monologue: "It's like, the clothes are in jail. I go in every so often and say, 'Could I just see the pants?' " Reno goes directly to the Supreme Court and for the jugular. On the abortion ruling: "Soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business Sauce, Satire and Shtick | 11/8/1990 | See Source »

...image of this college." More than anything else, the result of the Review's actions has been to frighten away talented students and faculty. Like the American generals in Vietnam who had to destroy villages in order to save them, the Review is devastating Dartmouth in order to redeem...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Have They No Decency? | 10/16/1990 | See Source »

...only was it a chance for the Crimson team to redeem their near-perfect record before the Cincinnati defeat--aside from the championship, they had won every major race this year--but it was also an opportunity to redress past greivances...

Author: By Madhavi Sunder, | Title: Heavyweights Win Big at Henley | 7/10/1990 | See Source »

...brace for a possible rush to redeem Magellan shares in the wake of his departure, Lynch had been quietly accumulating a $1.8 billion cash hoard as part of the mutual fund's portfolio of 1,400 stocks. At week's end nervous investors were redeeming Magellan shares at a rate 75% faster than that of the previous week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Wizard Bows Out | 4/9/1990 | See Source »

...politics and a respected analyst of foreign policy. His forthcoming book, In the Arena, excerpted this week in TIME, is his most emotionally fired memoir to date and his most exculpatory. Beginning with his flight from the White House, he recounts his moments of despair and his struggle to redeem himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From the Publisher: Apr 2 1990 | 4/2/1990 | See Source »

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