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Word: spitted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...coddles prisoners. "With him you'll get the closest thing to a fair shake," says Michael Gunnells, the assistant warden in charge of security. A year ago, for instance, at Camp J -- home to Angola's incorrigibles -- staff morale had bottomed out in a storm of hurled food, spit and excrement. Whitley responded with a strict set of disincentives. Curse a guard, forfeit canteen privileges. Throw a meal tray, lose your radio. "The burden is on prisoners," says Captain Davy Kelone. "It drives them crazy." That it does. Camp J inmate Virgil Smith likens his living conditions to a "concentration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bringing Decency Into Hell: JOHN WHITLEY | 12/14/1992 | See Source »

...little too neat structurally, its moral and human issues a little too clear-cut: at heart it is old-fashioned melodrama. But Sorkin's dialogue | is spit-shined, and the energy and conviction with which it is staged and played is more than a compensation; it's transformative. And hugely entertaining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Close-Order Moral Drill | 12/14/1992 | See Source »

...frustrated first-year student, who asked not to be identified, said he and his roommate try to spit at the Yard's squirrels. The students, who claimed he could spit at pigeons without any problem, said he hasn't been able to hit a squirrel yet, since they are amazingly elusive...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Hsu, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Are Squirrels a First-Year's Friend? Or Are They Only Glorified Rats? | 12/12/1992 | See Source »

...black hole, we turned on the videos in the dance room, which was soon full of writhing bodies pointing up at the TV screens and saying, "Look! It's Paula Abdul!" Suddenly, there was a break in the music, and frustrated dancers began to jeer, stamp their feet, and spit at anyone who even remotely looked like a host...

Author: By Michael E. Balagur, | Title: Endpaper | 11/19/1992 | See Source »

...career fears and emotional compromises -- that rule most people's lives, but it is more photogenic. Here is the new creed: movies are pictures of stuff happening. And the uglier the stuff, the more, well, cinematic the result. Naked aggression is sexy. I shout in your face. I spit in your face. I blow off your face. I blow up your family. I blow up the city. So many films today want to begin with invective and end in apocalypse. Everybody dies; get there first. Made it, Ma! End of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Adding Kick To the Chic | 11/16/1992 | See Source »

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