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Word: romper (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...compete directly is alluring. On the other hand, there is a second-class element to webRIOT online: the TV contestants win bigger daily prizes (all-expense-paid vacations, for instance) and watching a show just because your name might appear on the air is a tad close to Romper Room. But, says MTV Online vice president Rick Holzman, viewers downloaded more than 750,000 copies of the game software before the show's premiere, and while he says MTV's Internet servers have undergone heavy testing, you almost suspect the network hopes the system will be shut down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: What's My Online? | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

...sets in between running pubs, which is where he picked up smoking. In his 20s, he toured and sang (and smoked) with his own band, which still performs as 30 Odd Foot of Grunts. By 30, he had 10 films to his credit Down Under, most notably 1992's Romper Stomper, in which he played a psycho skinhead. Sharon Stone brought him to Hollywood for her 1995 western The Quick and the Dead. But it was his role as the pugilistic cop with a heart in the 1997 L.A. Confidential that finally ignited his career. Suddenly people were saying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Star: Becoming The Insider | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

DIED. NANCY CLASTER, 82, peppy original hostess and co-creator of the quintessential kids' TV show for baby boomers, Romper Room; in Baltimore. A last-minute stand-in on the show's 1953 debut, Miss Nancy spent 11 years on air admonishing her moppet guests and tiny fans at home with the "Do Bees" and "Don't Bees" of good behavior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones May 5, 1997 | 5/5/1997 | See Source »

Boys and girls (or girls and boys--we at Dartboard are always politically correct), it's that time again. No, we're not talking about Romper Room, although it is a Romper Room of sorts. We're talking about Head of the Charles weekend...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IMP ALING GRANDMA ON AN OAR | 10/22/1994 | See Source »

...work out?" People who would feel shame appearing naked in front of others under any other circumstance are united by a common room is the great equalizer. Rich and poor, fat and thin are all naked together, and comfortable in their nudity. It's like Romper Room...only naked...

Author: By Eleni N. Gage, | Title: A Personal Voyage to Filene's Basement | 3/10/1994 | See Source »

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