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Word: wowing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Facial Expression. The woman's eyes are almost always closed. Her lips are open, and indicate to the reader that she's thinking, "Wow. This guy is the one." Closed lips might accidentally suggest she is thinking, "Did I leave the oven...

Author: By Molly B. Confer, | Title: Understanding the Romance Novel | 2/13/1992 | See Source »

...Wow! Four movies for the price of one. The Prince of Tides may be the biggest bargain of these recessionary holidays. Excessive is the word for director Barbra Streisand's movie -- and not an entirely pejorative one either. It is adapted -- by Pat Conroy and Becky Johnston -- from Conroy's romantic, sentimental and gothic novel, which has attracted a passionate following precisely because, in an age when most serious fiction has a pinched quality, his work is so gloriously unbuttoned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Santa Leaves a Six-Pack | 12/30/1991 | See Source »

...Wow. If I were ed chair at the time, I would have saved that beauty for the Monday after...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: The Lost Wednesday | 11/27/1991 | See Source »

...staff's reasoning in rejecting Thomas hinges on its odd statement that "we don't believe [Thomas]" in his most recent denials. Wow. In a couple of paragraphs that ignore the complexity of the hearings, The Crimson, as if privy to the depths of Thomas's and Anita Hill's thoughts, ignores the doubts which frustrate the nation as it grapples with the fate of Thomas's career. The Crimson simply "believes" Thomas harassed Hill...

Author: By Allan S. Galper, | Title: How Do They Know? | 10/15/1991 | See Source »

...Wow, I thought. Standing up to Uncle Sam, refusing to support a bourgeois capitalist state. True revolutionaries. Or so I thought...

Author: By Tara A. Nayak, | Title: Communism Falls | 9/19/1991 | See Source »

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