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Word: twister (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last Monday, 18-month-old Jonathan Waldick of Kissimmee, Fla., was asleep, wrapped in a blanket, when a tornado roared through his room. After the twister passed, Waldick's great-grandmother, Shirley Driver, along with several neighbors, began a frantic search...

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

...others, however, uncertainty persists. J. David Hampton `00, whose hometown of Kissimmee was buffeted by a twister, has been unable to reach his family by phone since before Monday...

Author: By Rodrigo Cruz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Recent Spate of Tornadoes Spares Harvard Community | 2/27/1998 | See Source »

...rare these days for a movie not to insult your intelligence. For every 50 brain-numbing flicks like Twister, Volcano or Con Air, we might be blessed with one smart film like Pulp Fiction or Fargo. Hollywood is now in the business for the masses--"The audiences want earthquake, volcano, flood, tornado and asteroid movies, so that's what we'll give them," the studio execs smugly think to themselves...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Film at Eleven: Bigger, Better Conspiracy Theory | 1/9/1998 | See Source »

Tough men go dippy in her presence. They look beyond the blondness and see a questing intelligence, a wit that can sting or caress and, in the corners of her smile, a hint that with the right guy, she wouldn't mind messing around a bit. So, in Twister, a meteorologist (Bill Paxton) runs away with her, ditching his fiance to wildcat after tornadoes. On Mad About You, her TV husband (Paul Reiser) can't stop rhapsodizing. "I'm admiring a beautiful girl who married me for some reason," he says, and "all I know is that I want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: MAD ABOUT HER | 12/15/1997 | See Source »

...cineplex a guys' clubhouse. TV bathes in social reassurance; movies strut toward sociopathic threat. Not many performers commute between the two with much profit or comfort. Yet Hunt has one of the 10 highest Q ratings (recognizability plus likability) of all women in entertainment, and her most recent movie, Twister, was the second top-grossing film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: MAD ABOUT HER | 12/15/1997 | See Source »

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