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Word: totem (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think with a lot of student organizations, people tend to blow up what they do, not just people lower on the totem pole," Ha says...

Author: By Jal D. Mehta, | Title: Will Employers Pop the Resume Balloon? | 11/19/1996 | See Source »

...idea. Not that I haven't done it, but I'm not particularly proud of it. Section is the worst place of all, because the TF is the person that's grading you. Dozing off in a section that's not required is perhaps the lowest on the totem pole one can go. (And yes, I've done that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: How to Sleep in Class | 10/12/1996 | See Source »

...baaaack. After three jokey films (Last Action Hero, Junior, True Lies) that defiled the great stone totem that is Schwarzenegger, Eraser is a return to basics. The film, which had a troubled history and a humongous reported price tag of $120 million, could have been a fiasco; instead, it smartly remythologizes this indispensable Hollywood icon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: ARNOLD, BACK TO BASICS | 7/1/1996 | See Source »

Harvard (11-9, 5-3 Ivy) split two double-headers, against Columbia and Penn, leaving them perched precariously atop the Rolfe totem pole, with only one game separating them from second-place Dartmouth...

Author: By Brian N. Phillips, | Title: Despite Weather, Baseball Races Heat Up | 4/17/1996 | See Source »

...Mallrats, Smith puts a clown face on the college-age glums. Life is awful, so let's go shopping, cruising, trashing. The movie's presiding goddess is a trash totem--famously troubled ex-teen Shannen Doherty as the primary lust object. A '50s teen pic for the '90s, Mallrats focuses on the attempts of Brodie (Jason Lee) and T.S. (Jeremy London) to win back their girlfriends on--eek!--a game show. But plot be darned; it's the texture, coarse but colorful, that counts--the pungent bustle of the action and Smith's wackily convoluted dialogue. The humor is gross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: ELEGY FOR DEGENERATION X | 11/6/1995 | See Source »

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