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Word: trouper (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...They aren't original. They don't write their own music (Hanson this is not). In fact, they don't even have producers who write songs for them. Get this they only sing ABBA tracks! Hooray! Take Dancing Queen or Mama Mia or Super Trouper: Add in some techno beats, throw in a few trills, make a music video and bam! You're a superstar with an endless catalogue of hits...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Soman's In The [K]now | 12/17/1999 | See Source »

...They arent original. They dont write their own music (Hanson this is not). In fact, they dont even have producers who write songs for them. Get thisthey only sing ABBA tracks! Hooray! Take Dancing Queen or Mama Mia or Super Trouper: Add in some techno beats, throw in a few trills, make a music videoand bam!youre a superstar with an endless catalogue of hits...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, A POP CULTURE COMPENDIUM | Title: Soman's In The [K]now | 12/10/1999 | See Source »

...time of my life, be subjected to this painful situation," said Reynolds, 65, whose son Todd Fisher is president of the hotel firm. The hostelry has endured a series of setbacks, among them the removal of its slot machines and a sale that fell through at the 11th hour. Trouper that she is, Reynolds will still perform there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 21, 1997 | 7/21/1997 | See Source »

...singer, Busch is a dynamite actress. To the task he brings a heroic vibrato and a trouper's frozen wide-screen smile. Imagine Tallulah Bankhead working the low notes and Shirley Temple the high ones on the Johnny Mercer-Harold Arlen Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive, and you have an idea of the suave campery at which Busch excels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: AC-CENT-TCHU-ATE THE POSITIVE | 9/4/1995 | See Source »

LIKE A TIN PAN ALLEY TROUPER, ROSS PEROT HAS A craving for the limelight and for Larry King Live. His latest gig casts him as head of a new watchdog group, designed to badger Bill Clinton and Congress about federal spending and the deficit. Before a crowded Dallas press conference, a pleased Perot unveiled new versions of the old props -- the fiscal charts, an 800 number and TV commercials -- that helped him capture 19% of the vote in November. Then he regaled reporters (or at least himself) with a scratchy rendition of Patsy Cline's smash hit Crazy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ross Redux | 1/25/1993 | See Source »

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