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Word: zebras (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Distractions, distractions. Everything in Diana Ross's midtown Manhattan apartment vies for your attention: a zebra-patterned couch, brightly colored Warhol portraits of Ross, a table full of black panther statuettes, a large gold Hindu figurine. One thing holds your focus: Ross herself. The 55-year-old Motown great looks fabulous--slim, smiling, sexy. She seems as breezily radiant as she ever was, flipping back her wavy black hair after every other sentence. One wonders why it took so long for the Oscar-nominated star of such big-screen films as Lady Sings the Blues (1972) and the TV movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Stop! In the Name of Divas | 5/17/1999 | See Source »

First, something about guest referee Vinny Pazienza seemed to ruffle the chicken's feathers, prompting a scuffle that ended with Paz landing a knockout blow. The man in a zebra suit won out over the man in the chicken suit...

Author: By Richard B. Tenorio, | Title: Charlie Hustle Gets A Body-Slam | 4/7/1999 | See Source »

...possible, while the female usually can produce only a dozen or so offspring in her lifetime no matter how much she messes around, so why should she try? Furthermore, the female consort of man-the-hunter didn't dare cheat on him lest he stomp off and take the zebra carcass with him. So Hillary fumes, Monica pines, and Bill, propelled mindlessly by his evolutionary male legacy, looks for new places to dispense his seed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Real Truth About The Female Body | 3/8/1999 | See Source »

...have entered folklore, to the point that Hughes is remembered less for having been an industrialist-aviator-Hollywood-producer than for having been a saver of urine (his own), a recluse terrified of dust, a man who, with the right audience (Mormon bodyguards), couldn't see Ice Station Zebra often enough. Yet for every celebrity eccentric, a dozen more labored in obscurity. Who remembers Brian Hughes? This 1920s box-manufacturing tycoon liked nothing better than to patrol the sidewalk outside Tiffany in New York City, an envelope tucked beneath his arm. When the moment seemed right, and pedestrian traffic sufficient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crazy And In Charge | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

...with black bulb Christmas lights. A black beanbag and an entertainment system populate one wall of the room, the other three surfaces are blanketed with angled mirrors arranged to create diamond panels. Flying in the face of the conventional leopard-print, Jackson opts for another pattern of the savannah: zebra stripe, on a pair of boxers--yes, that's right, underwear--hanging on a hook in the corner...

Author: By Debra P. Hunter, | Title: Rooms Built For Love, and Then Some | 11/12/1998 | See Source »

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