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Word: traps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to Smith, Signorino fielded questions in a very confident and mature way, and did not "fall into the trap of using statistical jargon...

Author: By Rebecca A. Butcher, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Ph.D. Student Lands Tenure-Track Position | 9/29/1997 | See Source »

...original show's idiotic plotting, redundant dialogue and silly visual effects (here, the usual overhead view of a speedway's race line-up before start includes eight or nine bona fide cars, an airplane and an enormous spermatozoa). "Fast Driver" covers the anime-parody territory far better than "Booby Trap...

Author: By Nicolas R. Rapold, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sick and Twisted | 9/19/1997 | See Source »

...addition to a great plot, the actors make the characters convincing. The beautiful Roberts, as the compassionate attorney, shows real and believable sympathy toward Jerry, even if she always looks a little too perfectly groomed and styled: Whether she's climbing through trap doors or running through fields to escape bullets and missiles, she is never flushed or unkempt...

Author: By Christiana Briggs, | Title: They're Not Out to Get You Just Because You're Paranoid | 8/15/1997 | See Source »

...through one of its up periods. I have never seen Manhattan looking so prosperous. Somebody planted petunias in huge hangers up and down the street-lamps of 34th Street. Lower Sixth Avenue is a refurbished shoppers mecca. And in place of the old, ugly little traffic-island cum death trap on the corner of my tiny three-block long Greenwich Village street sits a new, brilliantly designed safe and elegant little garden. There are still homeless people sleeping in Abingdon Square, but someone has planted cosmos-flowers there too. I've never seen such things outside Vermont. Every time...

Author: By Garance Franke-ruta, | Title: Out of Sight, Out of Mind | 8/8/1997 | See Source »

Platinum ends with a speech Elvis made in 1971. Quoting Vincent Youmans' 1929 Without a Song, he says, "So I keep singin' the song." The impulse to sing raunchy, corny, beautiful songs trapped Elvis; and in that trap, as this set proves, he sometimes found triumph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FROM HOUND DOG TO LOUNGE ACT | 8/4/1997 | See Source »

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