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Word: tinsel (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Player gives credence to Oscar Levant's epigram remark about Hollywood: "Scratch off the phony tinsel at the top, and you uncover the real tinsel at the heart...

Author: By Joel Villasenor-ruiz, | Title: Dicing Up Hollywood With Robert Altman | 4/23/1992 | See Source »

...this year, Take Back the Night has offered for all comers a fortnight of feminist reeducation. (1992's keynote speaker and slideshow performer was National Endowment for the Arts poster-womyn Karen Finley, perhaps best known for adorning herself with chocolate and alfalfa sprouts, as well as "...yams ...candies...tinsel...

Author: By Matthew J. Mcdonald, | Title: Send It Back | 4/22/1992 | See Source »

...piece "Yams up my Granny's Ass" is aboutthe how women are "treated like shit" and thenexpected to dress up and look nice for dinnerFinley said In the piece Finley spreads yams,chocolate, candies, sprouts and tinsel on hernaked body...

Author: By Helen B. Eisenberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Finley Calls for Women's Protests | 4/16/1992 | See Source »

Sawdust and Tinsel--Thursday, April...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Everywhere But Harvard | 4/2/1992 | See Source »

...anthology, and considered as a collection of modern cartoonists' work, it enthralls. A few of the off-the-wall humorous pieces miss their mark. But such works as Drew Friedman's "Laugh Makers," in which Shemp Howard, "Ugliest Man in Hollywood," has "His pick amongst a virtual smorgasbord of Tinsel-town starlets"; and Daniel Clowe's "The Laffin' Spittin' Man," in which a practical joker commits suicide with a toy gun, are darkly hilarious...

Author: By Liam T.A. Ford, | Title: A Poignant Catalogue of Comics | 10/10/1991 | See Source »

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