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Word: dankest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...very least, Harvard retains its license to install single copies of software, which means that lab computers will still have the latest programs. Time to break out your 31/2 floppies and head on over to the House computer lab, usually the dankest, darkest and coldest part of the building. Tolerate the odd smell just long enough to surmise that half the PCs are dead and the printer is out of paper...

Author: By Richard D. Ma, | Title: COMPUTER ALTERNATIVES | 3/11/1999 | See Source »

...very least, Harvard retains its license to install single copies of software, which means that lab computers will still have the latest programs. Time to break out your 3 1/2 floppies and head on over to the House computer lab, usually the dankest, darkest and coldest part of the building. Tolerate the odd smell just long enough to surmise that half the PCs are dead and the printer is out of paper...

Author: By Richard D. Ma, | Title: Groovy Train: Computer Alternatives | 3/11/1999 | See Source »

Wild Bill, which is one of the dankest and most claustrophobic westerns ever made--a movie that deliberately shuts itself off from the clean, redeeming beauty of prairie, mountain and desert--takes the celebrity metaphor into new realms of darkness and hysteria. Written and directed by Walter Hill (48 HRS.), it presents Wild Bill Hickok (Jeff Bridges) as a moron with a fetish: if anyone touches his hat, he will shoot him. Not that he really requires an excuse to ventilate any and all comers. It is just that this is what the man does when he's not repairing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: OUT WEST ON A BAD STAR TRIP | 12/4/1995 | See Source »

...comers. It is just that this is what the man does when he's not repairing to an opium den and losing himself in bad pipe dreams. Or drinking too much. Or resisting the advances of Calamity Jane (Ellen Barkin). "'Wild Bill' is one of the dankest and most claustrophobic westerns ever made," says TIME's Richard Schickel. "It's a movie that deliberately shuts itself off from the clean, redeeming beauty of prairie, mountain and desert, and takes the celebrity metaphor, which is at the heart of most gunfighter westerns, into new realms of darkness and hysteria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOVIES . . . WILD BILL | 11/24/1995 | See Source »

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