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Word: swillingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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The revolutionary-themed room was perhaps the most intellectually stimulating. On one poster, the Whites who battled the communist Reds in the Civil War were portrayed as wine-swilling fat cats not dissimilar in manner to the depictions of their red-white-and-blue-hatted American counterparts on the congruent...

Author: By Joshua A. Kaufman, | Title: GETTING FOGGY | 2/8/1997 | See Source »

Overall record sales were flat last year, and the industry could use a megahit. But while music-industry suits may be understandably breathless about Fairweather Johnson's impending release, not everyone is panting. Now that Cracked Rear View has sold more copies in the U.S. than any single album by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: CAN 13 MILLION HOOTIE FANS REALLY BE WRONG? | 4/29/1996 | See Source »

They enter sporting chic bobs, shifts, minis, Airwalks, tie-dyes, shirtsleeves. The crowd includes wide-eyed preteens as well as graying members of the baby-boom generation. "I spent five hours here yesterday going through Netscape and playing computer games," says Davie, an affable 12-year-old who is sweetening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMPUTER CAFES: YOU LOG ON HERE OFTEN? | 9/25/1995 | See Source »

Now American TV executives are at the same threshold. With help from Saunders and AbFab script editor Ruby Wax, Roseanne has reworked the teleplay for her pilot episode three times in an effort to appease ABC bosses. "The first script I turned in was almost exactly what they would have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: CAROUSING WOMEN | 6/12/1995 | See Source »

The adult Selena should not be in the movie. In King's book, she disappears as a teen-ager; Gilroy brings her back tediously to confront the issues involving her father's death. She should have stayed in the void. Leigh's Selena is a whiskey-swilling, cigarette-smoking caricature...

Author: By Theodore K. Gideonse, | Title: Script Suffocates Dolores | 4/6/1995 | See Source »

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