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Word: stared (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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What's a Loveless woman to do? Simple: stare back at the man who done her wrong and give him caustic advice. The album's first single, a cool Matraca Berg easy-rockin' plaint, says it tartly: "You can feel bad if it makes you feel better." That's the '90s cad for you. He'll take a little short-term guilt--and instant absolution from the woman he's left in the dust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: SHE CAN HANDLE THE TRUTH | 3/11/1996 | See Source »

...stage's curtain provided my first impression of the show: lavish, but schlocky. Here was a beautifully rendered map of East Africa, emblazoned with the show's title--and a bevy of advertisements. Not too attractive, and unfortunately I had to stare at it during the whole overture...

Author: By Daniel Altman, | Title: Pudding Show Is a Recipe for Disgrace | 2/21/1996 | See Source »

This is only the beginning: over the next few years Treasury plans to redesign every note except the $1 bill. If blown-up portraits of Lincoln and Hamilton stare out at us the way Franklin's does, the changes will require a significant psychological adjustment even on the part of Americans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IT'S A BRAND-NEW CENTURY | 2/12/1996 | See Source »

...besides, with the class in a smaller, secluded space Chen said, "no one will stare or embarrass anyone...

Author: By Marian Hennessy-fiske, | Title: Leverett Learns Leisure Lessons | 2/10/1996 | See Source »

...Earth constricts. We imagine ourselves to be prisoners in solitary confinement, tapping crude coded messages on the dungeon wall and hoping for an answering tap--without which we stare at the queasy possibility that we are truly, absolutely alone. Such an abyss 1) may be infinitely more depressing than the assumption of human inferiority or 2) may argue, conversely, for the divine uniqueness and therefore preciousness of the human enterprise. An agnostic will split the difference and think of Voltaire: "Remember your dignity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IS THERE LIFE IN OUTER SPACE? | 2/5/1996 | See Source »

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