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Word: trice (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trash mountain town" of South Park, Colo. A bit more is at stake this time: the fate of the world. The lads see a movie starring their favorite Canadian gross-out comics, Terrance and Phillip, and parrot the naughty language. The South Park moms blame Canada, and in a trice we're war-ready. Meanwhile, Kenny (the dead one) goes to hell, where Satan and Saddam lurk. It takes a children's crusade--La Resistance--to get to the final rainbow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sick and Inspired | 7/5/1999 | See Source »

...ceremony also included speeches by two undergraduates from the Class of 1999 and one by a graduate student, Hazel Trice Edney of the Kennedy School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cheers, Tears Mark Sunlit Ceremony | 6/25/1999 | See Source »

...Brando culture was vital and restlessly innovative, but it carried the seeds of its own boredom. Revolutionary pop was too speedily accepted, turned into mainstream mulch and, in a trice, its own parody. Artists with any hope of staying power were forced to reinvent themselves a la Madonna. And her triumph was not any singing style, or even a winking decadence, but simply the prolonging of her career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pop Culture: High And Low | 6/8/1998 | See Source »

...this is just fun and games. The real show begins when Ballard's car jumps a barrier and head-ons another car; the driver is killed, but his wife, a doctor (Holly Hunter), survives. Ballard meets her at the hospital, and in a trice they are having urgent sex in an airport garage. The doctor tells of her other sexcapades in cars: "They felt like traffic accidents." She loves making love to men with scars; to her, each wound is an orifice, and auto eroticism is an aphrodisiac. It is more--a sacrament--to Vaughan (Elias Koteas), whose obsession with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: SLOW-MOVING VIOLATION | 3/24/1997 | See Source »

...could stanch the epidemic in a trice were it not for that old bogeyman the nut case Army general (Donald Sutherland, eyes rolling goofily). Appar-ently a killer virus, the threat of plague, a White House crisis-oh, and a pretty blond child set up for a big bad monkey bite-aren't enough for one doomsday movie; the military has to go bats as well. We can only surmise that back in 1986, when he produced Platoon, Kopelson contracted a deadly strain of the con-spiracy virus from Oliver Stone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THIS VIRUS ISN'T CATCHING | 3/20/1995 | See Source »

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