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Word: standly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Katzenberg repeats. "I'm trying to enjoy myself," Kilmer answers moodily. The toys that Katzenberg brought to amuse the actor are not working. "You may want to stand up and get in the physical thing of it," Katzenberg says to Kilmer. "He ain't going to stand up," someone in the booth observes. Things go downhill from there, in a session that is something of a metaphor for the gargantuan struggle to make The Prince of Egypt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Prince And The Promoter | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

...compete with Union Camp. Both companies can strip sales, marketing and technology spending out of the budgets of their prey. It is remarkable how much duplication and overlap can exist among competitors, enabling both companies to pay substantial premiums over what the marketplace was willing to pay for the stand-alone entities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Of Oil and Paper | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

CONCESSION STAND It's hard to be a good loser. It's much more dignified to blame voter fraud. Dennis Vacco waited until last week, then his lawyer conceded defeat for him in the New York Attorney General's race. Notable holdouts on the give-it-up front...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Dec. 14, 1998 | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

...morning, one of our guides spots a parrot high in a tree, a Fransemadam, so called because it spreads a scarlet frill when excited, like the gaudy costume of a French madam. I admire, take note of the bird and am ready to move on, but Mittermeier could stand under the tree for hours lost in the intellectual pleasure of seeing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forests: RUSSELL MITTERMEIER: Into the Woods | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

...takes a special kind of courage to stand up against your friends and neighbors--especially if you're a member of Alaska's proud Eyak Indian tribe. But that's what Glen ("Dune") Lankard, 39, had to do to help preserve the last remaining coastal temperate rain forest in North America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forests: DUNE LANKARD: Scream Of The Little Bird | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

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