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Word: tallness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pictures pouring out of Taiwan last week that told the real story. Buildings were peeled open like dollhouses, with walls stripped away and still furnished rooms absurdly exposed to the air. Tall buildings leaned drunkenly against smaller neighbors. Taipei's Sungshan hotel-apartment complex accordioned from 12 floors to just four, but a temple nearby remained standing, its paper lanterns hanging from the perimeter of the roof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tears and Trembling | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

...minimalist lobby, designer Philippe Starck's trademark, absurdist touch was at full volume: painted white with touches of fluorescent yellow, it featured an oversize, 8-ft.-tall vase filled with hydrangeas; gold-leaf stools shaped like molars; and a collection of giant chess pieces straight out of Alice in Wonderland. Upstairs in the spartan $200- to 300-a-night bedrooms, guests could "paint" the room according to their moods, using a colored light panel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where It's Chic To Sleep | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

Later, in Hollywood, the fictional Morris becomes a hack screenwriter and spies Reagan and his soon-to-be first wife Jane Wyman on the beach: "This mature Dutch--'Ronnie' she calls him--is tall and sparely straight, constructed in flats, a mobile Mondrian... Even his pectorals are flat and square; he has no bulges in him, of brawn or brain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mixing Fact and Fiction | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

...tall order to fill...

Author: By Rosalind S. Helderman and Adam A. Sofen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: With Merger Sealed, Task Turns to Dean Search | 10/1/1999 | See Source »

Dunn looks like your grandmother, with crisp white hair and a ruddy complexion, who stands just about five feet tall. She loves detective novels and just finished knitting a blanket for her first grandchild, who will be born next month...

Author: By Jonelle M. Lonergan and Adam A. Sofen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: With Wit and Wisdom, Dunn Becomes Dean | 10/1/1999 | See Source »

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