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Word: want (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Another friend complained about their employment practices. "They only hire tall, beautiful people to work in their store. They want people with a certain look and they encourage sales staff to flirt with people to induce them to buy." And, sure enough, overweight, or average-looking sales people were relegated to the back of the store. The good-looking ones were strategically placed in the front...

Author: By Christina S. Lewis, | Title: Abercrombie and the "American" Image | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

...want to have as big an interest pool as possible," Butler said...

Author: By Victoria C. Hallett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Frat, Seneca Plot Alternate Social Scene | 9/24/1999 | See Source »

...first-years want to make friends and sophomores want to look old, what about juniors? I regressed--it was third grade and the first day of school was the most exciting event in months. And part of that excitement was the new outfit I would get to wear for the first day of school, along with the new teachers, the new kids, and the third graders' spot at the playground...

Author: By Aparna Sridhar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Social Analysis: Prada In Paine | 9/24/1999 | See Source »

...There is a disturbing trend in Hollywood to obliterate camp - even though campiness is a chief asset of a cult classic or any movie that acquires legendary status. But suddenly, movie execs want purity--"truth" at all costs. The latest victim is Barbarella, that terribly cheesy but wonderfully entertaining 1968 film starring Jane Fonda; Fonda vamped it up as an astronaut in the 41st century trying to save a positronic ray. Audiences ate it up. Drew Barrymore has signed on for a remake, but the new Barbarella will dump the camp factor and tell a very serious scientific story about...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Soman's In The [K]now | 9/24/1999 | See Source »

...crashed on television!" she says. "I didn't want to be an astronaut any more...[Before the explosion,] we would have to draw pictures of what life would be like on a space station--we stopped doing that...

Author: By Adam A. Sofen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Songs of Innocence: Cultural Memories that First-years Just Can't Remember | 9/24/1999 | See Source »

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