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Word: stream (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unfortunately, Thompson's sound reasoning lost out to the public's love of bare breasts, and the measure went down 775-283. Davis vows to continue her mowing habits next summer. Interested tourists can find her on Martin Stream Road...

Author: By Noah Oppenheim, | Title: Democracy's Follies | 11/6/1998 | See Source »

...handful of kids whose parents were late to pick them up. Standing in front of the school, Feingold spoke for 10 minutes on his plans for reducing class sizes; a few more listeners trickled in. As Feingold went on, his voice could barely be heard above the steady stream of cars driving right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The System Bites Back/The Race For The Senate | 10/26/1998 | See Source »

Visiting the dentist may have just become easier. The FDA has approved Millennium, a laser-powered drill that uses a stream of water instead of metal blades to excavate tooth surfaces. The advantage: Millennium causes less pain than conventional drills, and it doesn't emit that hair-raising high-pitched whine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Health: Oct. 26, 1998 | 10/26/1998 | See Source »

...Marriage of Bette and Boo is essentially a tweaked autobiography of the deeply troubled marriage of Durang's parents, and of the difficult years he had growing up in a less-than-perfect family. Along with a stream of stillborns, Durang drags onstage a number of horrifying events which would normally only be fodder for serious family dramas (including alcoholic fathers, sexist inlaws, overbearing mothers, bitter siblings, ruined holidays, ineffective counseling, desperate mothers and the death of aging parents), shows them in all their horrible glory, and manages to somehow leave the audience in stitches...

Author: By Erin E. Billings, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: In `Bette and Boo,' Everything's Relative | 10/23/1998 | See Source »

...stroke-victim husband Paul's virtually incomprehensible speeches. In contrast to Margaret Brennan's fruitless and overeager attempts to raise a normal family, Boo's parents, Karl and Soot, are the archetypal alcoholic husband and seriously oppressed sex-toy wife. Will Lebow, playing Boo's father, spurts a stream of obscene jokes, sexist comments and alcohol-induced insults, deftly making you want to strangle him; and Paula Plum, playing Boo's mother, giggles her way adeptly into our sympathies as Soot descends further and further into flamboyant madness...

Author: By Erin E. Billings, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: In `Bette and Boo,' Everything's Relative | 10/23/1998 | See Source »

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