Search Details

Word: ka (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Ka-chunk! Ka-chunk! Every day more than 200 million credit cards slide in and out of charge machines across the U.S. Ka-chunk! Americans used plastic to charge $480 billion last year, at a rate of about $1 million a minute. The typical American charge customer carries nine cards and owes more than $2,000 on them. Despite interest rates averaging close to 19%, many cardholders are blase about paying hundreds of dollars a year in interest, plus an annual fee for the privilege of doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Financial Services: Charge It Your Way | 7/1/1991 | See Source »

...than on justice. Director Sam Raimi, whose cheapo slasher film The Evil Dead achieved cult status, mines familiar comic-book terrain with a plucky heroine (Frances McDormand), a couple of corporate villains -- one slick (Colin Friels), the other slimy (Larry Drake) -- and plenty of explosive violence that virtually reads KA-BOOM! in block letters across the screen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Ka-Boom! | 9/17/1990 | See Source »

DARKMAN. Director Sam Raimi mines comic-book terrain with a plucky heroine, a couple of corporate villains and plenty of explosive violence that virtually reads KA-BOOM! in block letters across the screen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Sep. 10, 1990 | 9/10/1990 | See Source »

First | Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | | Last