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Word: stephen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Martin's real name is Stephen Fagan, and on the day of his arrest on the abduction warrant, his daughters, now 23 and 21, had two shockers dropped in their lap. First, Dad had a new name and was behind bars, charged with kidnapping them. And second, their mother was alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: End Of An 18-Year Illusion | 5/4/1998 | See Source »

...better to go to a class you're actually interested in than to go to one whose professor was featured on "The Simpsons," Aftandilian said, referring to Agassiz Professor of Zoology Stephen J. Gould, who was featured in an episode of the cartoon last fall...

Author: By Renee J. Raphael, CONTRIBUTING WRITERS | Title: Student Advice to Pre-Frosh: Broaden Academic Horizons | 4/27/1998 | See Source »

...mind more than anything else?" he asks, chuckling. "They had that book The Artist's Way in there, and on the side was stamped L.A. COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPT. It just seemed so funny." Downey read whatever friends sent him: a biography of early BBC exec John Reith, Stephen King horror stories, inspirational works. "I can tell you a lot about the Bible if you want," he says. "Both the Old and the New Testament." He goes into a short, funny riff about what might have happened if he had had "some major spiritual awakening" in jail, then laughs about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: From Hollywood To Hell And Back | 4/27/1998 | See Source »

...Stephen B. Hrones '64, who is running by petition this year, says the election process is biased against petition candidates...

Author: By James Y. Stern, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Overseer Elections Call Up Dedicated Alumni to Help Govern Harvard | 4/23/1998 | See Source »

...think maybe sexual preference might have some potential in this regard. Wendy Wasserstein, the playwright, obviously does. She's been trying to get an adaptation of Stephen McCauley's novel The Object of My Affection off the ground for something like a decade. It offers a gay guy named George (Paul Rudd) getting jilted, taking a room with a straight woman named Nina (Jennifer Aniston) and having them fall into, yes, affection. On her part, though, that develops into something a little more intense, especially when she contrasts his sweetness to the abrasiveness of her straight lover, Vince (John Pankow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mixed Doubles | 4/20/1998 | See Source »

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