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Word: wowser (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...drama," she says. "The movie will have lots of girl appeal, especially the Queen's costumes. She has a different fancy dress for each of her eight scenes." The throne-room dress alone took two months to complete and features globules of lights around the hem. It's a wowser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Ready, Set, Glow! | 4/26/1999 | See Source »

...Swingtime Canteen is not an excuse for a drag show. It is an evocative balancing act of music and comedy, parody and sentiment. The girls strut their tight harmonies with an Andrews Sisters medley--12 songs!--that's a wowser. And they escalate into feeling with I'll Be Seeing You. This gorgeous rendition works as a reminder of what the boys were fighting for, and what any struggle--war in the '40s, AIDS in the '90s--means to the combatants: pain and loss, and a sweet, frail hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: AC-CENT-TCHU-ATE THE POSITIVE | 9/4/1995 | See Source »

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