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Word: escapee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Divining this in Barney's art, you can begin with the word cremaster. The cremaster muscle pulls the testicles up into the body and is an indicator in the fetus of male gender. Everything in the "Cremaster" series swirls dizzily from there: for him, biological destiny is a prison. Escape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Hallucinatory Acts | 8/30/1999 | See Source »

Astronomers looking for black holes have long known that the deck is stacked against them. In order to find a heavenly body, sky gazers ordinarily take a straightforward approach, hoping simply to eyeball the object through a telescope. But black holes, which are formed by collapsed stars or compressed matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scientists Catch a Black Hole Red-Handed | 8/30/1999 | See Source »

Everybody, at least once in his life, wants to live in a nice small town, right? One with sidewalks, neighbors waving from their porches and a bustling central square within biking distance of your house? Trouble is, despite the growth of telecommuting, most jobs are still in cities and suburbs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saving Suburbia | 8/16/1999 | See Source »

They're finding eager pioneers among couples like Amanda and Michael Hale. The Hales think sprawl is too kind a word for conditions they rejected around Atlanta. They call it suburban blight, a strip-malled world void of rituals like walking to a store or enjoying an attractive building. "We...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saving Suburbia | 8/16/1999 | See Source »

Cary, when he felt the same way, always had a place to go. Merced calls itself the Gateway to Yosemite, and from the time he was a teen, that was his escape. He and his cousin Ronnie Jones would fish, hike and explore caves. "He never had a steady girlfriend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Shade Of His Brother | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

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