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Word: wormed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Schotz, the 41-year-old CEO of LMNOP (Leave My Name Off Productions), corners the freak-show stuff, concocting faster-paced versions of That's Incredible! His Fox series Guinness World Records: Primetime features oddities like worm-eating contests and the world's largest tumor, and his upcoming Fox special World's Most Shocking Medical Videos has footage of a woman's nose being regrown on her forehead. Schotz also makes the more wholesome Kids Say the Darndest Things and Behind Closed Doors with Joan Lunden. Lachman, who not long ago was known for creating Solid Gold and for winning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: When Good Networks Go Bad | 2/1/1999 | See Source »

Still, there is something coolly mesmerizing and wonderfully disturbing about the CD. Beck's lyrics, though elusive, are not nonsense. They obsess about issues of death and decay, and they strike at something deep, evoking feelings of sadness, melancholy and regret. "A worm of hope/ a hangman's rope/ pulls me one way or the other," he sings on Cold Brains. On another track he sings, "Treated you like a rusty blade/ A throwaway from an open grave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Killing Time | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

...secret of her success naturally eludes her former mate. Close, yearning observation has led him to believe that the celebrated are mostly not more gifted or harder working than he is. He thinks if he can just worm his way closer to the center of their world, he will be allowed to partake of their magic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Wages Of Fame | 11/16/1998 | See Source »

...early bird catches the worm, and in this case, rising early on a Saturday will yield its own rewards. Tickets for Billy Joel's concert at the Fleet Center on December 3rd go on sale at 10 a.m. Though they'll cost a pretty penny, who wouldn't put their last dollar down to hear a live rendition of "We Didn't Start the Fire" from the Piano Man himself? Call 931-2000 for ticket information...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LISTINGS | 11/5/1998 | See Source »

What might have happened is a fascinating guess. It seems doubtful that even such sturdy characters as Shackleton and his crew could have made a transpolar crossing. The terrain was unknown and unforgiving, no one on board knew much about dogsledding, and the half-trained dogs were sick because worm medicine had been left behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Frozen In Time | 10/26/1998 | See Source »

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