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Word: slot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...singles, junior Philip Tseng dominated his opponent at the third slot 6-0, 6-4. Sophomores Kunj Majmudar and Mike Passarella--playing in the fourth and fifth spots, respectively--also came away with victories, clinching Harvard's 4-3 victory...

Author: By Keith S. Greenawalt, | Title: Men's Tennis Busy | 4/30/1997 | See Source »

Paul said he had to rearrange the song to fit it into the two-and-a-half minute time slot the group is allotted...

Author: By Alexandra S. Morrison, | Title: Opportunes Will Appear Tomorrow on 'Today' | 4/30/1997 | See Source »

...getting at something that has long plagued Ellen, which sometimes feels like Seinfeld after a game of telephone. Although the show debuted three years ago in the Nielsens top five as These Friends of Mine, the sitcom has since stumbled through a number of cast, staff and time-slot changes, never quite jelling creatively, even by DeGeneres' estimation, and settling into the ratings' upper midrange. A major problem has been the indistinct character of Ellen Morgan, who seems to drift wackily through each show without ever offering much in the way of believable motivation, even in the elastic sense that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: ROLL OVER, WARD CLEAVER | 4/14/1997 | See Source »

...latest--and most impressively pedigreed--of these new series is ABC's Gun, which starts on April 12 and runs in Relativity's old time slot (Saturdays, 10 p.m. EDT). Conceived by director Robert Altman, Gun aims to follow the life of a single pistol--an intriguing premise until you realize that no single episode will have any relation to the last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: MYSTERY SHOT | 4/14/1997 | See Source »

...presence of independent films has finally reached the crescendo we have anticipated throughout the 90s. Rather than a single My Left Foot or The Crying Game to represent the Little Film, this year's oddball is Jerry Maguire, the only Hollywood project to earn a slot in the Picture race. The somnambulists who voted in featherweight tripe like Scent of a Woman and Field of Dreams are finally hibernating where they belong. As Shakespeare once apostrophized, "Studios, studios, where art thou, studios...

Author: By Nicholas K. Davis, | Title: AND THE Winner Is... | 3/20/1997 | See Source »

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