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Word: sappiest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Life" and "The Pretty Things Are Going To Hell" are engaging, but it's doubtful they'll be remembered as Bowie classics. Like its slick packaging, even the best of the album is still just surface. Nevertheless, listen to ...hours for the prescribed amount of time, and even the sappiest of songs begin to stick. The album's simplicity and repetitiveness will give you Bowie-brain for days, but unless you're a true Bowie-head, don't give ...hours the time...

Author: By Diane W. Lewis, | Title: Album Review: ...hours by David Bowie | 10/29/1999 | See Source »

...consumer guide to the information age." What Brill seems to be crafting is a mix of the probity of the gray Columbia Journalism Review and the audacity of the early New York magazine. Sample cover lines: THE 10 LAZIEST WHITE HOUSE REPORTERS AND DIANE SAWYER'S THREE SAPPIEST INTERVIEWS. Brill is writing a story on the scoops in the early days of the Lewinsky scandal, sorting out who got what and how they got it. Content reporters are also probing into such dark corners as the economics of local TV news (What's worth more to a station...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: New Watchdog on Duty | 4/27/1998 | See Source »

...going to give you an inch without a fight; all around us, people were plopping down huge blankets in tiny plots of ground, daring you not to move over. It didn't seem like a promising atmosphere for "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington," surely one of the sappiest films ever to come from that master of sap, Frank Capra...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New York's Warm, Fuzzy Side | 7/4/1996 | See Source »

Harvard has faced no deeper dishonor than that abominable piece of sappy drech, Alek P. Keshishian '86's ineptly titled movie, "With Honors." The only honor that this so-called film could compete for is that of the sappiest Harvard-related flick, a title currently held by the laughable "Love Story." Why is it that anytime a Harvard alum tries to pull off a heart-warming story about his alma mater, the result is, shall we say, less than inspiring? Perhaps because behind these ivy-clad walls, nothing interesting enough goes on to carry a halfway interesting movie...

Author: By Benjamin J. Heller, | Title: DART BOARD | 5/11/1994 | See Source »

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