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Word: took (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...need to get out of this space," and "please, please let me move" abounded as the painfully packed-in crowd tried to get to the bath-rooms and concessions en masse. Good feeling resumed, though, as soon as someone started a collective "moo" to which the mob took better than the pre-show wave that died a quick death...

Author: By Emma R. Heeschen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Thanksgiving Treat For Phish Fans | 12/11/1998 | See Source »

...style to Phish's playing that provided interesting variety to the show on Sunday night. Looking like an unlikely candidate for blues guitarist extraodinaire, he strolled onto the stage and proceeded to take over. While not expecting a blues show in the middle of the night, the crowd took it in enthusiastic stride and was praising Seth's playing for the rest of the night. The rest of the band adapted well to the new style and Anastasio and Jakominski seemed to connect as both jammed blues-style for the end of the first half of the show. Including...

Author: By Emma R. Heeschen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Thanksgiving Treat For Phish Fans | 12/11/1998 | See Source »

...mess, something must be said for Phish's light man, whoever he is, for making everyone feel like they were taking hallucinogens, and for making those crowd members who were feeling psychadelic very, very happy. The light show itself was almost worth the waiting and pushing that it took to get into the building, but not quite...

Author: By Emma R. Heeschen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Thanksgiving Treat For Phish Fans | 12/11/1998 | See Source »

...himself and his genre, which keeps him from becoming pretentious or sounding insincere. This is most artfully done when Tad watches his friend's ludicrous performance-art piece. His friend sits, mostly naked, in a bathtub, talking about how alone he is and how his parents "never took me to Disneyland!" and finishes the piece by cutting his wrists, which he immediately bandages. The performance leaves Tad "irritated," somewhat scornful of such observations that pose at being deep but wind up being simply dumb. This is O'Donnell's recognition that the style he himself is using can deteriorate into...

Author: By Leah A. Plunkett, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: We Wish You a Dysfunctional Christmas | 12/11/1998 | See Source »

...while back, women went to college to get the 'MRS degree,' and then there was this time when the whole superwoman ideal took over," Sullivan said...

Author: By Terry E-E Chang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Women Discuss Public Life | 12/11/1998 | See Source »

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