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Word: smirks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...actually closer to $440 million, but why quibble? The point is that Forbes, pretty much forgotten by the national media, has not gone away. He has been quietly pouring millions into Iowa, plotting to wipe that smirk off Republican front runner George W. Bush's face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: Meet Forbes, The Great Romancer | 1/24/2000 | See Source »

...film's off-kilter start, recounting the occurrence of several supremely bizarre deaths so coincidentally staged they seem sure to be the stuff of urban legend. And yet, as the unidentified narrator assures, they are absolute fact. "These strange things happen all the time," he offers with an invisible smirk. Inventive and charmingly frank as this introduction is, what's even craftier is that no such odd confluence of circumstance proceeds to occur in any one of the eight intersecting storylines that make up the rest of the film. In fact, in all three, thoroughly engaging hours, it's amazing...

Author: By Rajesh Kottamasu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Magnolia: Petal to the Mettle: P.T. Anderson's circus of dysfunction is worthy of P.T. Barnum | 1/14/2000 | See Source »

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