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Word: trashes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Best Female Actor: Recipients are always the hardest to find, and with good reason: most of the roles Hollywood writes for women are pure trash. This year, however, there was a great performance in a most unlikely place. Julianne Moore, playing the motherly porn star of Boogie Nights, blew the lid off her role...

Author: By Caille M. Millner, | Title: Democratizing Oscar | 3/30/1998 | See Source »

...Richard Wright argued against Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, claiming the book perpetuated stereotypes of blacks as "happy darkies" and minstrels. When asked about this parallel Walker answered, "The black arts community is still really young. We keep bringing up the same themes to trash each other...

Author: By Scott Rothkopf, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Walker Show Subverts Racial Stereotypes | 3/19/1998 | See Source »

...scene belonged on trash TV, full of staged bluster and righteous fury and lots and lots of diversions. There was James Carville, the President's alpha attack dog, daring independent counsel Kenneth Starr to subpoena him by mocking both his faith and his fervor. "He goes down to the Potomac and listens to hymns as the cleansing water of the Potomac goes by, and we're going to wash all sodomites and fornicators out of town," Carville said. There was Starr deploring what he described as an "avalanche of lies" that had paralyzed his investigation, by which he meant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Everyone's Talking Trash | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

Thirty minutes later they found him, some 50 ft. from his house, his tiny foot poking out of a pile of tree limbs, trash and other debris. Other than a few scratches, he was fine--and he was still wrapped in that blanket. The house he was blown out of, however, was pulverized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Twisters, Tragedies And Miracles | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

People aren't supposed to be nice to each other on a basketball court. They're supposed to trash talk, stuff, thump their chests, maybe even throttle a coach or kick a photographer in the 'nads. But to stand still so an injured player from the other team can shoot a free basket and break a school record? That kind of nonsense has no place in a gymnasium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shooting Like A Girl? | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

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