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Word: silliest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this unique combination of brilliance and empathy that friends insist makes Lan so special. "Iris is so brilliant," the Blackstocks both say. But at the same time, "she finds special things about everyone, even if it's the silliest or most insignificant thing to you. She's someone I know I'll be in touch with for the rest of my life...

Author: By Aby. Fung, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Renaissance Woman Keeps on Runnin' | 6/10/1999 | See Source »

...Western artistic experience," and suggests that he is the Hieronymus Bosch of our day, you sigh. Polke has never shown a smidgen of the aesthetic intensity, the absorption in religious and moral experience or the staggering completeness of Bosch's universe of images. This has to be the silliest comparison since Julian Schnabel last likened himself to Picasso...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Mocker of All Styles | 5/31/1999 | See Source »

...rest of the cast lends excellent support to the star's one-man show. Clarence Williams III (The Mod Squad's Linc) does a fine job, considering that he is saddled with the film's silliest part: Archie, the black servant who represents an amalgam of all the black people Wallace has ever known. And Mare Winningham is convincing as the loyal first wife Lurleen, who runs for Governor when the law prevents Wallace from succeeding himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: TEARS OF A DEMAGOGUE | 8/25/1997 | See Source »

...Shakespearean performance at Harvard. Although the play's length (two-and-a-half-hours) may seem daunting to some, the show is so skillfully realized and so well paced that the time is well spent. In the words of Queen Hippolyta in the fantastic final scene, "This is the silliest stuff that ever I heard!" But you will enjoy every minute...

Author: By Susannah R. Mandel, | Title: A Luminous Open-Air Performance of One of the Greatest Comedies of All | 5/9/1997 | See Source »

...gookum-like lava is less smothering than the plot cliches: our hero (Tommy Lee Jones) and his perpetually hysterical child (Gaby Hoffmann), ever blundering into catastrophe; the spiky geologist (Anne Heche) who has to exclaim "Oh, God!" 46 times; silliest of all, the ornery whites and blacks who when covered with gray ash learn that, gee, Armageddon is color-blind. And just once in a disaster film, could a dog please...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: IT LAVAS L.A. | 4/28/1997 | See Source »

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