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Word: tuxedos (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Smith must contend with the schemes of Senator Paine, his onetime hero who plays a scene decked out in white tie and tails. In Meet John Doe, Gary Cooper battles the fascistic schemes of the super-rich Edward Arnold, who is seen in an elegant dining room complete with tuxedo and cigar. In Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Cooper must defend himself against a courtroom full of slickly dressed, high-priced, big-city lawyers. In It's a Wonderful Life, Jimmy Stewart's George Bailey learns that without his good heart and small-town values, the whole town of Bedford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I'M JUST THAT SIMPLE | 6/10/1996 | See Source »

...body like a cancer. Anti-war rage was a powerful leveler, cutting across all Harvard class lines. As one eyewitness wrote, the University Hall occupants included "some people from the Loeb, a couple of guys from the Fly Club, at least one from the Lampoon and one in a tuxedo who just came from a party and was drunk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Building a New Fair Harvard in Four Years | 6/3/1996 | See Source »

Dick Armey, who emerged last week as Washington's biggest obstacle to a minimum-wage increase, is the kind of guy Americans say they want in Congress. After 11 years in Washington, the former economics professor still drives his Ford pickup to work, refuses to wear a tuxedo to obligatory gala dinners and is a connoisseur of drive-through meals, which he devours between meetings in his north Dallas district. (McDonald's hamburgers are more efficient than Wendy's, Armey says, because "they don't drip.") He is as likely to quote Popeye--"I yam what I yam," he told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN '96: FISHING FOR CONVERTS | 5/6/1996 | See Source »

...couples who had gotten married today and were running together," Hill-Popper said. "They were wearing like a veil and a tuxedo...

Author: By William E. Rehling, | Title: Harvard Races in 100th Marathon | 4/16/1996 | See Source »

...strategy is presumably based on the assumption that, one, people in the television audience can actually tell which tuxedo was made by which shmattemeister, and, two, once they do, they're going to rush out to buy one just like it because the unemployed flamenco-dancer look is just what they've been striving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DAMN THE TUXEDOS! | 4/8/1996 | See Source »

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