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Word: skips (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hollywood, everyone heads for the Xerox machine. Used to be that moguls would tell their minions, "Gimme the same, only different." Now they skip the different. But this doesn't work for comedy, which is based on the shock of wit. A joke is a story with a surprise ending; it should explode like a novelty-store cigar. It fizzles when the gags are sequeled and recycled. Why pay $7 for a summer rerun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Go Ahead. Make Me Laugh | 8/19/1991 | See Source »

Barbara, a single mother in her 30s who looks as if tiredness is a permanent condition, slogs up the four-mile trail from a roadhead at Texas Falls. She carries a big, scruffy backpack and a nursing baby. A couple of other kids skip ahead. She comes to Gatherings because "I can feel safe for a few days." Safe from what? She doesn't say, and it doesn't seem necessary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Over The Rainbow | 7/15/1991 | See Source »

...Duke, Gates' departure has stirred up a different kind of debate. Soon after it was announced that Gates would make the move to Harvard, a flier was distributed around the Duke entitled, "10 Top Reasons for Skip Gates Leaving Duke for Harvard." Two of the reasons were money...

Author: By Julian E. Barnes, | Title: Afro-Am On The Rebound | 6/6/1991 | See Source »

...staff editorial also warned that Harvard's new prize may be fleeting. "Harvard, if Gates ends up there, should beware: its new star is apt to skip town as quickly as he gets there...

Author: By Julian E. Barnes, | Title: Afro-Am On The Rebound | 6/6/1991 | See Source »

...three moves and the variety of offers that have come Gates' way have led some scholars to attach extra meanings to the Duke scholar's nickname, "Skip...

Author: By Julian E. Barnes, | Title: Afro-Am On The Rebound | 6/6/1991 | See Source »

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