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Word: slammer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shut up, shut up, SHUT UP for just a few minutes please...during a flight from Madrid to Manchester. Authorities there claimed his mobile's emissions constituted a safety hazard, interfering with air-tower-to-pilot communications. But we know better, don't we? They threw him in the slammer for sweet revenge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: We're Already Living in Cell Hell | 8/23/1999 | See Source »

Downey has reason to be in good spirits. Not only has he just been sprung from the slammer, he also has a new movie opening this week, Two Girls and a Guy, that's generating strong buzz for his role as a duplicitous lothario confronted by the two women he's been dating simultaneously (see review). And he has two more films coming out this year: In Dreams, in which he plays a psycho telepathically stalking Annette Bening, and Friends and Lovers, an indie comedy-drama that finds him playing a ski instructor. Though he must return each night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: From Hollywood To Hell And Back | 4/27/1998 | See Source »

...released briefly in 1993, before his speeches and writings got him thrown into the slammer again. Only in recent years has he seemed less of a threat, obviously weakened and sometimes listless, wasting away in a cold cell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FREE--AND STILL FEISTY | 12/1/1997 | See Source »

After the trial, Albert's accuser revealed herself to be Vanessa Perhach, a hotel worker from Vienna, Va. "I got justice," she said in a newspaper interview. "He admitted he did something wrong." She also said she hoped Albert wouldn't be thrown in the slammer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OH, NO! FOR THE YES MAN | 10/6/1997 | See Source »

...found guilty of causing an explosion that killed two company scientists. Pfizer manufactured a defective heart valve that caused 360 deaths worldwide. In all these cases, hefty fines were levied and stern statements were made, but no executive or plant manager spent so much as a night in the slammer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GETTING OFF EASY IN TOBACCO LAND | 7/14/1997 | See Source »

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