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Word: cobweb (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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SPIDER-MAN Disentangled from legal snarl, he'll finally get his own movie. Buy cobweb futures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Mar. 15, 1999 | 3/15/1999 | See Source »

Jumping to a third unrelated topic,Freedom Songinvestigates the complex relationships of two families whose patriarchs are brothers. Chaudhuri's snapshot technique works against him in his attempt to create art from this cobweb of genealogical entanglements. He jumps from character to character without ever presenting the full picture. This confuses an already befuddled reader who has enough trouble sorting out the foreign names of the members of the families. Unlike the first novel where Chaudhuri acts as a benevolent guide, this story assumes a knowledge of Indian marriage matchmaking rituals and cultural customs that the lay reader simply does...

Author: By Contributing Writer, | Title: An India Song Details, then Melts | 3/5/1999 | See Source »

...Cobweb Tiffany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sure Things | 4/11/1994 | See Source »

...course of the year, Raza President and eventual spokesperson of the Coalition for Diversity, Richard Garcia '95, ran into the cobweb of committees as he tried to lobby the administration to hire more Latino faculty...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: College Ties Race Problem In Bureaucratic Red Tape | 6/10/1993 | See Source »

...cobweb glistening with dew seems as fragile as it is lovely. But one day soon, predicts University of Wyoming biologist Randy Lewis, man-made analogues of spider silk will be put to an astonishing variety of heavy-duty uses, from reinforcing fibers in aircraft doors to body-hugging suits for downhill skiers. Over the past four years, Lewis has played the attentive host to dozens of fist-size spiders called golden orb weavers, housing them in Plexiglas condominiums, feeding them a daily diet of flies and, every now and then, flipping them on their backs to unravel yards of gossamer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Copying What Comes Naturally | 3/8/1993 | See Source »

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