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Word: scalped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...which leaves little room for professional comedians, let alone filmmakers with a polemical ax to bury in some foolish politician's scalp. How can they parody something that is already the lowest form of public discourse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Man For the '90s | 9/7/1992 | See Source »

Robert says he requested the maximum number of tickets even though he knew that no friends or family members would attend his graduation. He says he planned all along to scalp the tickets...

Author: By Melissa Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Seniors sell Commencement Tickets, Furniture | 6/3/1992 | See Source »

...species in Hollywood. African Americans have already made it quite clear that they are fed up with appearing in movies as muggers, pimps and other disreputable characters. Arab Americans say they are sick of being typecast as terrorists. And Native Americans have had it with being portrayed as brutish scalp-craving savages. Now gay activists are taking to the streets to decry the growing number of movies that, they say, are stereotyping them as psychopathic killers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Out of The Celluloid Closet | 4/6/1992 | See Source »

...guards took away the chess set he made from tinfoil, Anderson asked Sutherland to teach him French. Sutherland also kept them occupied with lectures on agriculture and his Volvo car. One day at the end of 1987, overcome by frustration, Anderson banged his head on the wall until his scalp bled. But later, when a French hostage, Marcel Fontaine, said he hoped not to die a prisoner, Anderson replied, "I don't want to die anywhere." Like Anderson, Sutherland experienced days of despair. Several times he tried, but failed, to suffocate himself with plastic bags...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surviving In Captivity | 8/19/1991 | See Source »

...like flossing teeth. What you are looking for is the nymphal stage of an arachnid (not an insect) that is louse-size only as an adult and that as a nymph has been compared to a dark freckle. Where you are looking is behind the knees, in pubic and scalp hair, under watchbands, in armpits. Yes, you need a partner for this, and perhaps, if you are no longer 25, a stiff drink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life In The Age Of Lyme | 6/24/1991 | See Source »

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