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Word: sofas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ferguson led her to Clinton's room, she says, which was furnished with a sofa and chairs but no bed. With the trooper waiting in the hallway, Clinton closed the door and made small talk about her job. Then he took her hand and pulled her toward him. When she pulled away, he told her, "I love the way your hair flows down your back," and, "I love your curves." Then he put a hand on her leg and tried to kiss her neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jones Vs. the President | 5/16/1994 | See Source »

...Endora, obviously christened by screenwriter Peter Hedges after the verb "to endure." Run-down and depressed, Endora suffers from and delights in the great wheel of American capitalism. What keeps Gilbert planted in this morbid spot is Momma (Darlene Cates). Most of the time Momma sits planted on a sofa in front of the TV, where she sleeps at night, and where the girls dutifully pull up a table at meal times. Meanwhile, the house, which Mr. Grape built and died in, has rotted to the point where it can no longer bear Momma's weight; the floorboards begin...

Author: By Katherine C. Raff, | Title: The Wrath of Grape | 1/21/1994 | See Source »

...predicated on the assumption that men do not make as satisfying companions for women as Harvey Mansfield would like to believe; the cover concretizes this assumption, featuring a racy-looking mongrel eagerly helping himself to a happy-seeming woman's popcorn as they sit side by side on the sofa, watching television. Inviting. You might cheer the caption that "Dogs aren't threatened by two women with short hair...

Author: By Alexandra Jacobs, | Title: Books Not-So-Heavy Petting | 11/18/1993 | See Source »

...Tucker slumps on the clinic sofa eating a bag of salted nuts when a nurse hands him his latest piece of hate mail -- "No one has to kill you. You are already dead," it reads. To get home to Birmingham, Tucker must drive 250 miles that night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dispatches: Riding the Abortion Circuit | 8/9/1993 | See Source »

...desperate families, then draw up the escape plan, procure the forged documents and furnish the transportation. One kingpin of the racket is Big Boss Ma (not his real name), a Thai gangster of Chinese descent who funnels mainland Chinese through Bangkok. Seated in the lotus position on a teak sofa at home in Mae Sai, a northern Thai town, Big Boss exudes confidence and affluence. His gold front tooth glimmers as he speaks of his $20,000 prepaid package trips, which he claims have a success rate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where's the Promised Land? | 6/21/1993 | See Source »

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