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Word: blinks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...which brings me back to my post-headphones-revelation. What do I do right now? I listen to Blink 182, quietly, meekly, filling my head with adolescence and trying to figure out if anything has changed in the past four years. Was I always a critic or was there some as yet unspoiled moment when I still had a chance? That headphone business—it’s some shameful stuff, and as I stood there thinking about it in section, I wondered if anything could be done in the way of repair. It’s a tough...

Author: By Leon Neyfakh | Title: Fear and Loathing in the Currier Elevator | 6/5/2007 | See Source »

...standing with a bunch of black kids and giving them a double thumbs-up, as if to tell us that despite whatever you may have heard, Thompson totally approves of black children. His site, however, does have a cool function where people Twitter--write short messages that blink on a map of wherever they're from. Over five minutes, I saw these Twitters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Friends in High Places | 5/31/2007 | See Source »

...film opens inside Bauby's head, going in and out of focus like his consciousness; we get the same blurry vision, varying sound levels and blinking camera. Bauby feels the natural anger and humiliation; on the voiceover narration he observes, "I'm 42 years old and I'm being washed like a big baby." In a hand mirror he catches sight of himself and his drooping mouth: "I look like I came out of formaldehyde." But Bauby is a fighter, who has the best (and most gorgeous) trainers to help him connect and communicate with the world he was once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Handicapping the Palme d'Or | 5/26/2007 | See Source »

...winds in right-center.After No. 9 hitter Brad Rifkin grounded a single up the middle, senior Jason Brown tried to staunch the bleeding. But he only managed to induce a sacrifice bunt before allowing an RBI single, hitting a batter, and surrendering a three-run drive to Dietz. In the blink of an eye, an encouraging four-run lead had morphed into an insurmountable four-run hole.“I thought we had it there,” junior Matt Vance said, “but the relievers just didn’t have it today.” Harvard...

Author: By Jonathan Lehman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bullpen Blows Late Lead | 4/23/2007 | See Source »

...Yorker staff writer is the best-selling author of Blink and The Tipping Point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The TIME 100 | 4/19/2007 | See Source »

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