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Word: velvetized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lost Highway had preceded Wild at Heart (or Eraserhead or Blue Velvet), it might give off a sense of otherworldly menace. But we've visited this planet before, become familiar with its obsessions and grotesqueries until they hold as little terror as garden gnomes. And while it's always a tonic in this timid film age to see directors try something different, Lost Highway is the same different. Someone should tell Lynch that noir is a genre, but weird...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: MILD AT HEART | 3/3/1997 | See Source »

...little revenge once in a while?" asked Ann Oster, 45, who works in real estate in New Jersey. Living well, of course, is the best revenge of all: after the screening, Kenner gave each of her friends a special First Wives memento--a string of pearls in a little velvet pouch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HELL HATH NO FURY | 10/7/1996 | See Source »

AILING. MEL TORME, 70, velvet-voiced song stylist; after a stroke; in Los Angeles. Torme was hospitalized in guarded condition after developing pneumonia and a partially collapsed lung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Sep. 2, 1996 | 9/2/1996 | See Source »

...itself is nothing special. A dog sits holding a diploma in its mouth over a subtitle reading, "Obedience school graduate." Then a second dog trots onscreen, proudly bearing a purple-velvet pouch with a bottle of Crown Royal whiskey inside. "Valedictorian," reads the subtitle. Typical, right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SEAGRAM'S ON THE BOX | 6/24/1996 | See Source »

...went upstairs to a room packed with kids. One kid was a volunteer at the New England Aquarium," Herschbach says. "Sitting there in the bathtub was this baby seal. I don't know if you've ever seen a baby seal, but it has a thick, marvelously velvet coat and emits squeaks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A New Quad House Opened | 6/3/1996 | See Source »

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