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Word: eyeful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...takes a lot to catch a busy student's eye, and campus posters are a remarkable testament to the fickle passions of the student spirit. Some posters, usually ads for sketchy shared apartments ("Seeking female roommate who loves rottweilers"), psychological experiments ("Are you manic-depressive?") or surveys at the Dental School ("Free Root Canal!") tend to stay up for decades. Others have half-lives around 40 minutes, like advertisements for the endless stream of speeches given by political has-beens, or the even more endless stream of a cappella jams with names that never get old--including "Jambidextrous," "Jambivalent," "Jamnesia...

Author: By Dara Horn, | Title: Billboards in Fantasyland | 4/29/1999 | See Source »

...Another car slows down near our section of the line. It's a late-model black, Nissan Pathfinder. A window rolls down and a middle-aged woman with a perm, heavy eye-liner, and a flashy adornment of jewelry scans the crowd...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Editor's Note: Fame in the Name | 4/29/1999 | See Source »

...fourth rendition of the Sesame Street jam, I am beginning to appreciate the psychological factors that drive people to commit violent crimes--the fatigue, the desperation. I eye Sunkist boy's kneecaps. I envision what it would look like to shatter them with a crow bar into many tiny pieces. I suspect that such an act will harm my chances of successfully becoming a VJ, but at this point I don't give a damn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Editor's Note: Fame in the Name | 4/29/1999 | See Source »

Aznar also spoke on his country's membership in the European Union (EU), which he says is proof that Spain has become an open economy with an eye toward the next century...

Author: By Christopher C. Pappas, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Spain’s PM Lauds NATO | 4/27/1999 | See Source »

Aznar also spoke of his country's membership in the European Union (EU), which he says is proof that Spain has become an open economy with an eye toward the next century...

Author: By Christopher C. Pappas, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Spain's PM Lauds NATO | 4/27/1999 | See Source »

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