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Word: took (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Over 50 people attended last Tuesday's protest, but only the 13 students were arrested for blocking the entrance to the embassy by handcuffing themselves together. Five protesters attacked their necks to a railing using bicycle locks, which took firefighters half an hour to remove. The protest was peaceful...

Author: By Jonelle M. Lonergan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Alumna Jailed At D.C. Free Burma Protest | 11/2/1998 | See Source »

...Monty Python at the bottom of such a concept, the writers of this ambitious parody were three Californians who had the idea while putting up skits at their local Renaissance Faire. They decided the idea was so brilliant that they wrote down the bare bones of the performance and took it on the road, producing it throughout the known world before retiring and turning the script over to those who need it most; namely, pre-midterm college students with a pent-up urge for nose-thumbing...

Author: By Carla A. Blackmar, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Smashing in Spandex: Playing it Again at the Loeb Experimental | 10/30/1998 | See Source »

...would expect of the woman herself. Opposite him in this scene is Green, with a Muppet-like rendition of Lavinia, the tongueless assistant. The idea for the scenario is mediocre at best, but the caricatures by Amblad and Green in conjunction with the cheery daytime TV soundtrack definitely took the humor up a notch...

Author: By Carla A. Blackmar, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Smashing in Spandex: Playing it Again at the Loeb Experimental | 10/30/1998 | See Source »

...albums, but unlike their previous raw guitar pieces, "Lotus" blends the raw sound into the fabric of the song in a way that neither accents it nor leaves it too far in the background. "Lotus" seems to resolve R.E.M.'s conflicts with the hard and distorted guitar that took the world of popular music out of their hands and into the grunge era's clutches...

Author: By Benjamin L. Kornell, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Up and Away: R.E.M. Walks On | 10/30/1998 | See Source »

...contrary to everything we thought about the brain up until now. It was assumed that at some point in your grown-up life, brain cells stopped generating and started dying off. Not true -? at least not in the hippocampus, according to a team of American and Swedish scientists who took samples of this portion of the brain from cancer patient autopsies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brain Growth: Using Your Head | 10/30/1998 | See Source »

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