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Word: successful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ridiculous-that-you-have-to-laugh movies (Dazed and Confused, SubUrbia), The Newton Boys robs money not just from banks, but from moviegoers. Set in the bootlegging world of the 1920s, the Newton Boys (Matthew McConaughey, Vincent D'Onofrio, Ethan Hawke and Skeet Ulrich) are America's most successful bank robbers, and are portrayed as sweet, Southern-drawling teenage heartthrobs. Making a mockery out of the real event, this film persuades moviegoers to fall in love with all those chiseled faces and to forget the fact that their success was made in robbery. The overly-cheesy music and the slow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brevitas | 4/17/1998 | See Source »

Statistics used to calculate radio station don't take college students into account. Though KISS-108 has consistently received stellar ratings, these opinions do not necessarily reflect the station's success at Harvard. FM took to the streets to expose some of what Harvard really thinks about KISS...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: kiss@harvard.edu | 4/16/1998 | See Source »

...Success in making these areas smoke-free has prompted administrators to make the entire campus nonsmoking, Lewis said...

Author: By Jenny E. Heller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Smoking Banned In All Houses | 4/16/1998 | See Source »

Just as the prestige from Harvard's performance in 1996 sustained the team in the national rankings last year, UMass' success last season has kept it in this year's top 10 despite losses to Duke and Loyola...

Author: By Own Break, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: M. Lax to Tackle No. 10 Minutemen | 4/15/1998 | See Source »

...find my agenda dominated by endless activities and classes, some of which seem only a necessary prerequisite for the future; an obligation determined by the narrow standards society defines as success. Sure, I love my E.P.S. class, but here goals and aspirations quickly turn into expectations and evaluations, so that life is but one continuous examination--a contest between human potential and sheer will...

Author: By Christopher M. Kirchhoff, | Title: Sleepless in Holworthy | 4/15/1998 | See Source »

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