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Word: spoken (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...almost complete absence of dialogue is one dilemma that the filmmakers had to wrestle with. Because Ulrich has no record of any spoken interaction amongst Martha and her family, it was challenging to decide how to depict their relationships with each other...

Author: By Judy P. Tsai and Bonnie Tsui, S | Title: Professor of History Paves Way for Fine Film | 3/6/1997 | See Source »

...cozy confines, and when I ask if any of the owners are around, Rico Dicensio, one of the pizza men I recognize from my many late-night visits, steps out from behind the counter to introduce himself. We get to talking and it comes out that the soft-spoken Dicensio was born in Italy and immigrated to America 37 years...

Author: By Dan S. Aibel, | Title: The Harvard Pizza Wars? | 3/4/1997 | See Source »

Four days earlier, Mitby had spoken against a council bill recommending that the University's non-discrimination policy be amended to protect "transgendered" persons...

Author: By Caitlin E. Anderson, | Title: Peninsula Calls Parody Assault on Free Speech | 3/3/1997 | See Source »

...nominee who won't be at the Grammys is Hillary Clinton, who has to attend a state dinner. She was tickled at her nod for the spoken-word Grammy, especially since recording did not come easy. At one point proceedings had to be halted because sound engineers could hear the First Lady's stomach rumbling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 3, 1997 | 3/3/1997 | See Source »

...country as avowedly macho as Brazil, can a soft-spoken female executive pull such an unwieldy behemoth together? If anyone can, it is probably Marques. Brazil's Finance Minister, Pedro Malan, calls her a "force of nature." A legendary workaholic, she stayed at her CSN desk right up to the day before her first children--twins--were born last October. "The doctor told me if I didn't stop working, I'd have had to leave [the office] in an ambulance," she recalls. Feeling that the standard four-month maternity leave was excessive, Marques was back at her desk exactly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARIA SILVIA MARQUES: CEO, NATIONAL STEEL CO.; RIO DE JANEIRO | 3/3/1997 | See Source »

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