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Word: stained (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...smooshing it everywhere, Michael looked at me and said, "Bill, aren't those my pants you're wearing?" I looked at him, motionless. Silence. Then I began my little jig again. The pants are still lying in my room. Every detergent I've tried hasn't gotten the banana stain out. They should make a laundry detergent commercial about that...

Author: By G. WILLIAM Winborn, | Title: Crimed Tries to Master the Art of Losing | 8/12/1994 | See Source »

...wife. Jack Willis plays the out-of-work alcoholic battering husband, Clyde, in possession of the coolest stage effect known to mankind. His butt keeps bleeding throughout the whole play. It starts with a little dribble in the seat of his jeans and proceeds to one giant, bloody, backside stain. Although his entrance is worth it just for the exquisite gore, it signals the death of the play...

Author: By Sarah M. Rose, | Title: Throbbing, Fantastic But Flaccid | 4/28/1994 | See Source »

...than all those who stare darts our way, how short life is. We are nature's bravados, medicine's death-row aesthetes." As the health magazines remind us, absolutely everything can kill you. So smokers figure they may as well go out with a smile on their lips, a stain on their teeth and a wheeze in their outcast hearts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's All the Fuming About? | 4/18/1994 | See Source »

Rule 3: Come prepared. Stain Stick is only the beginning. To kill the 34 minutes (or 56 for a dryer) in a socially acceptable manner, students carry everything from romance novels to Rousseau...

Author: By Emily Carrier, | Title: Underground, Students Wage War Over Laundry | 2/26/1994 | See Source »

...show displays Frankenthaler's technique akin to "color field" painting, inspired by Jackson Pollock's "drip paintings." This method uses an unprimed canvas so the pigment seeps into the picture and creates a stain instead of sitting on top of the surface. Through this technique, Frankenthaler has explored the way colors relate both to the surface and to each other, an issue which has interested her throughout her entire career...

Author: By Tara B. Reddy, | Title: Frankenthaler's Impressive Prints | 2/10/1994 | See Source »

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