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Word: teller (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...interest in a memoir, especially a good one like Tobias Wolff's This Boy's Life, is voice-activated. It's not so much the tale as the teller, the tone he takes about himself, what he makes out of past experience, that seizes and holds our attention. It follows that an autobiography is not the ideal foundation for a movie; the two forms are antithetical. It also follows that This Boy's Life, though seriously meant and conscientiously made, doesn't quite work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Memoir into Melodrama | 4/19/1993 | See Source »

...long ago, one had to go up to to a bank teller after waiting in line for hours to make a withdrawl; today there are automated teller machines (ATMs) that dispense cold cash as quickly as you can spend it. But there are still those who complain that it takes too long for the machine to honor their requests...

Author: By Haibin Jiu, | Title: P. C. CORNER | 4/6/1993 | See Source »

...BOTTOM LINE: With the art of a story-teller and the skills of a novelist, Gaines makes the difficult look easy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An A-plus In Humanity | 3/29/1993 | See Source »

...related incident, Pasquarello said Cambridge police were looking into the two reported assaults at the Baybank 24-hours automated teller machines on Sunday...

Author: By Andrew L. Wright, | Title: Police Add Square Patrols | 3/24/1993 | See Source »

...crimes at automatic teller machines around the country increase, two reports of harassment by an unidentified man at the Harvard Square Baybank's machines were field with the Cambridge Police Department yesterday...

Author: By Lara H. Arden-smith, | Title: 2 Harassed at Baybank ATM | 3/22/1993 | See Source »

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