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Word: tsunamis (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...where you might think I'm crazy. The film is a bit subversive in its approach. But a film can often be subversive to the subconscious. It comes out and it's often criticized and reviled, but it lasts. It's sort of like a tsunami wave. It starts out miles and miles from the beach. You hear a noise that just moves fast under the water. Then without warning it hits the beach, an explosion. Obviously, this film is going to be denied; there will be some decrying and reviling. All the errors are going to be attacked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Plunging into The Labyrinth | 12/23/1991 | See Source »

Thursday: Spin Doctors with Life In Between, Dreams Made Flesh and Tsunami Poets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLUBS | 12/12/1991 | See Source »

Dubbed "the Japanese Tsunami," Fujimori surprised Peru's longtime favorite son by appealing to the country's desperate poor in a door-to-door campaign through shantytowns and farm villages. Although a native of Peru, Fujimori benefited from Japan's reputation as the new economic superpower. On a political talk show he mentioned Vargas Llosa's claim that "he can get $1 billion from the Japanese," then added with a grin, "I ask myself, Why aren't they going to give it to Alberto Fujimori...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peru Engulfed by the Tsunami | 4/23/1990 | See Source »

...political candidate who comes out of nowhere, the Japanese Tsunami could fade just as fast as he rose. But for now his fresh face and promises of greater social justice seem to be just what Peruvian voters are looking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peru Engulfed by the Tsunami | 4/23/1990 | See Source »

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