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Word: tiara (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...applauded when Sophie arrived with her father, a former tire salesman. Considerably less crinolined than the dresses of Diana and Sarah, Sophie's fitted silk-organza-and-crepe gown nevertheless boasted 325,000 cut-glass and pearl beads and a formidable train. Her veil was affixed with a diamond tiara borrowed from the Queen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Welcome To The Firm | 6/28/1999 | See Source »

Some Harvard students win scholar-ships that come with a plaque. Quincy House resident Laura M. Lawless '00 wins scholarships that come with a tiara...

Author: By Geoffrey A. Fowler, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lawless Competes in Pageant | 6/25/1999 | See Source »

Quincy House resident Laura M. Lawless '00 wins scholarships that come with a tiara...

Author: By Geoffrey A. Fowler, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lawless Competes in State Pageant | 6/25/1999 | See Source »

...matching muff, she handily offends feminists, animal-rights activists and good Christians everywhere, and she wins, because shimmering, jewel-encrusted, heedless movie stardom defeats all common morality. Her wit completes her cosmic victory, particularly in her facial expression of painful, soul-wrenching yearning when gazing upon a diamond tiara, a trinket she initially attempts to wear around her neck. Discovering the item's true function, she burbles, "I always love finding new places to wear diamonds!" Movies can offer a very specific bliss, the gorgeousness of a perfectly lighted fairy tale. Watching Marilyn operate her lips and eyebrows while breathlessly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Blond MARILYN MONROE | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

...daughter recalls her disco-theme wedding reception last summer, when her dad grabbed her cape and a friend's crown and headed out to the dance floor with a big Grove grin. There, in front of family and friends, was Andras Grof in a silver-lame cape and rhinestone tiara groving to Le Freak as around the world, Intel plants silently cranked away to his rhythm. What were the odds of that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANDREW GROVE: A SURVIVOR'S TALE | 12/29/1997 | See Source »

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