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Word: swears (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...portrait of the interior life at a time when TV ads clog the stream of consciousness like shimmering dead fish. Long stretches where the laughs come hard are followed by sudden bloomings of comic rhapsody. This wayward frolic is a bit like Oscar's car. Sometimes you could swear it was stone dead -- until it starts up and runs right over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Speaking in Tongues | 1/24/1994 | See Source »

...decided when we elected him that the future of our country was more important than the history of his marital woes. Nonetheless, the media has dog-piled on the recent rumors of philandering, justifying its behavior like pubescent students drooling over Playboy: "It has really good articles, I swear...

Author: By Beong-soo Kim, | Title: The Politics of Our Values | 1/10/1994 | See Source »

...first time since Michael Eisner became chairman a decade ago, the Walt Disney Co. reported a quarterly loss. The $77.8 million in red ink was attributable to Euro Disney, which has lost nearly $1 billion in its first fiscal year. Not that the experience has driven Disney to swear off theme parks. In Manassas, Virginia, Disney announced plans to build an American- history theme park near there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Week November 7-13 | 11/22/1993 | See Source »

...features regularly contain swear words, we used to have a bottle of vodka in our office, and FM writer Seth Mnookin got a tattoo--or tried to--for a Scrutiny. The Crimson lives less dangerously and certainly has no tattoos. Crimson is the good child...

Author: By Molly B. Confer, | Title: Hey, Mom! FM's Bugging Me! | 11/12/1993 | See Source »

...does 15 things at once, watching the ball game on one corner of the screen, visiting Bangkok on another, jumping to whatever wild file server his punk videobot digs up. These onscreen hosts are supposed to learn more as they get to know your tastes, but I swear his gets dumber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Confessions of a 21st Century Couch Potato | 10/25/1993 | See Source »

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