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Word: secret (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lampoon, a semi-secret Bow Street social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine, denied circulating the prank fliers...

Author: By Esther S. Yoo, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Lucifer Associates Joke Bedevils Students | 10/19/1998 | See Source »

...most intriguing was the article's suggestion that one could view this exhibit as a sort of secret key to the present and the future. In the report, the curator calls Humerelli the "Monica of the day." He explains that the people of Nuzi were "throwing the book at a corrupt, a criminally corrupt, mayor" and says the museum was "keenly aware of a certain bitter irony." The article's ending makes the connection between the two scandals explicit: "So what happened to Kushshi-harbe, the alleged philandering leader of Nuzi? No tipoff to Clinton's fate there. The cuneiform...

Author: By Dara Horm, | Title: The Monica of Mesopotamia | 10/15/1998 | See Source »

...Secret Service agents may have suspected Monica was up to no good, but all they did was hold her up at the gate for security checks. One labeled her a "hall surfer" and "a cross between a stalker and a 15-year-old chasing a rock star." But their only revenge was to see her sweat. Agent Steve Pape described an occasion when Monica waited for clearance in the heat. "She was sweating," said Pape. "I mean, lots of sweat, on her dress, down her back... By the time the appointment finally...was in the system and she went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Unreachable Starr | 10/12/1998 | See Source »

...people responsible for The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer--a moronic sitcom scheduled to make its debut on UPN this week unless the network experiences a late and totally unprecedented attack of good taste, common sense and plain old decency--describe it as a "high concept" period comedy. That must mean they were smoking some dynamite stuff when they dreamed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dumb and Dumber | 10/12/1998 | See Source »

...aired the premiere of The Secret History of Desmond Pfeiffer, a sitcom about Abe Lincoln's fictional black butler, causing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Oct. 12, 1998 | 10/12/1998 | See Source »

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