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Word: weirdo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Back home in Cambridge, the police reported over 1000 incidents of violent crime last year. And in cities like Detroit and Washington, D.C., simple murder is old news unless there's a sex scandal or a psychopathic weirdo as a backdrop to the killing...

Author: By Kenneth A. Katz, | Title: Safe at Home? | 2/10/1992 | See Source »

...Nielsen chart, often cracking the Top 10. There it usually joins Miller-Boyett's reigning champ, the four-year-old Full House, in which three unattached males cope with a houseful of little girls. Not far behind is Perfect Strangers, a buddy comedy with Bronson Pinchot as an immigrant weirdo who comes to live with his cousin (Mark Linn-Baker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Revenge of The Nerd | 4/1/1991 | See Source »

PACIFIC HEIGHTS. Weirdo Michael Keaton squats in a house and tries to drive the nice couple who own it crazy. Sound like Beetlejuice II? Not quite: this thriller concentrates on turning familiar fears into plausible melodrama. The result is one of the slickest haunted-house movies since Psycho...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Oct. 22, 1990 | 10/22/1990 | See Source »

Larry (Tim Robbins) is not entirely unfamiliar either. You have met him most memorably in Dog Day Afternoon. He is the not-quite-bright, entirely too volatile urban terrorist of every passerby's nightmare. For he is the kind of weirdo who one day decides to air his grievances by invading public space, grabbing a few hostages and seeing if the resulting police and media attention will ease the throbbing in his temples. Larry rides his motorcycle through the plate-glass window of Turgeon Auto, in grungy Queens, N.Y., where Joey works. He is looking for whoever is having...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Doing The Ultimate Deal CADILLAC MAN | 5/21/1990 | See Source »

Last year James Spader made his first large claim on public approval with his portrayal of a delicately nuanced weirdo in sex, lies, and videotape. Around the same time, sometime brat-packer Rob Lowe made his first large claim on public opprobrium when it was revealed that he had staged a somewhat less formal drama -- more of an improv, really -- involving sex, lies and videotape in an Atlanta hotel room during the 1988 Democratic Convention. Now the two young actors are co-starring in something called Bad Influence, and guess what familiar items feature in its plot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: In The Nick | 3/19/1990 | See Source »

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