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Word: reliefs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first detective. He is also a troubled soul, carrying literal scars from childhood and memories that roil his sleep. So handsome, so haunted, he proves irresistible to this Katrina (Christina Ricci). Yet Depp bumbles and stumbles, just like the old Ichabod; he is the hero and the comic relief in one tightly wound package. Doesn't always work, but we've been admiring this actor's bravado and forgiving his excesses for ages. Why stop now? Besides, he ultimately makes Ichabod a truly obsessive romantic hero: Byron by Ahab...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tim Burton's Tricky Treat | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

...played by Christopher Walken. Walken's silent performance is sure to make you start out of your seat at least the first time you see him. His gnarly-teeth, wild hair and demonic eyes make you regard his subsequent headlessness as less of a fright and more of a relief...

Author: By Sarah L. Gore, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sleepy Hollow, Creepy Hollow | 11/19/1999 | See Source »

...Originally diagnosed as a torn MCL, the injury was thought to be season-ending. Luckily, it was only a sprain and the Crimson breathed a huge sigh of relief...

Author: By Maureen B. Shannon, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: One More Touchdown, One More Record | 11/18/1999 | See Source »

...hope for the millions of Americans suffering from chronic pain: A team of University of Minnesota researchers has isolated a small set of neurons on the spinal cords of rats that seem to relay chronic pain, and deactivated them with the neurotoxin saporin. The result: quick and permanent relief of various forms of chronic pain. While it has yet to be tested in primates, researchers hope that this could one day spell permanent relief to migraine sufferers, arthritis patients and sufferers of backaches and creaky joints...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking the Ache out of Backache | 11/18/1999 | See Source »

...contexts, and you?d have to know a lot about the individual and his own religious habits before concluding that he was deliberately taking down the plane. It?s widely believed here that the plane was sabotaged, but not by the crew ? and that shifting the blame onto the relief pilot is part of a cover-up." Egypt has sent its own investigators to review the evidence, prompting NTSB officials to delay handing over the case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blame Our Guy? Not So Fast, Say Egyptians | 11/17/1999 | See Source »

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