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Word: toasts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...both Victor (the man-impersonating-a-woman whose racy nightclub act has made him/her the toast of '30s Paris) and Victoria (the down-on-her-luck English opera singer who, desperate for work, agrees to become a woman-impersonating-a-man-impersonating-a-woman whose racy nightclub act, etc.). The show's writer and director is her husband Blake Edwards, who after a long career in films (the Pink Panther series, as well as Victor/Victoria) has chosen to embark on musical theater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: LE JAZZ NOT SO HOT | 11/6/1995 | See Source »

...goal, and it worked." Every whiff of scandal, every scurrilous charge, every distortion of the Senator's record was lobbed at Dole with fury. The cumulative effect was decisive. After Bush won the New Hampshire primary, Dole angrily told Bush to "stop lying about my record" and was instantly toast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHY DOLE HASN'T LOST IT | 9/4/1995 | See Source »

...American forces fighting to capture Okinawa, was undertaking a new offensive to seize control of the island. The Americans knew the tiny speck in the Pacific was the ultimate stepping-stone to the empire's home islands. Throughout the 83-day struggle for Okinawa, Buckner's favorite toast, over bourbon and water, was "May you walk in the ashes of Tokyo." Aware of this objective, his enemy, Lieut. General Mitsuru Ushijima, prepared a war of attrition to keep Okinawa from becoming a staging ground for the U.S. invasion of Japan. "Do your utmost," Ushijima's men were told. "The victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR OF THE WORLDS | 8/7/1995 | See Source »

...daringly Roseanne's version will veer from Cybill, or another failed AbFab knockoff called High Society, remains to be seen. Even if the wry, raunchy cocktail is watered down, the original Edina and Patsy will still be lurking somewhere in the cable universe, with plenty of fans to toast them...

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

...Dartboard would like to propose a toast: to Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57, who will leave his job in July to begin a lucrative advertising career...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DARTBOARD | 5/19/1995 | See Source »

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