Word: grab
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Within the next minute, in some small town, a clueless 14-year-old will slip white shoes onto her black-stockinged legs, and no one will stop her. No leonine six-footer will swoop down from the sky to grab the pumps from her pudgy little feet and rescue her from fashion disaster. No, the skies are empty today. Because the supermodel is dead...
...become the most popular program on ESPN2, drawing well among young male viewers as well as those in their 40s and 50s. And NASCAR's TV ratings are now second only to those of the NFL. This fragmentation of the sports audience has attracted advertisers and sponsors eager to grab a larger share of the $700 billion spent each year by young males. "Right now, if you're looking for the young male demographic, you have to look outside the traditional sports," says Bob Igiel, director of the ad agency Media Edge. Sponsorship revenue for extreme sports is expected...
...felt dizzy and had to grab hold of a nearby chair. Shock. Utter disbelief. Incomprehension. It took a bit for nasty reality to truly sink in. How could the fool who voted against the Gulf War actually...
...large black-and-white cow--or at least a student dressed as one--was exactly what joined in the Charles River Run Saturday morning, when about 125 fist-years, many in Halloween grab, ran the 1.7 mile course...
Catchy, sure, but do you really want to bring him home to meet the folks? Still, against all odds, on Odelay, Beck managed to pull from his grab bag of idiosyncracies something somehow coherent, edgy and adorable all at the same time. Maybe it was the lovable geeky cowboy thing, or all that talk of him capturing the zeitgeist. Truth be told, we always did grin at that line about him being a loser and he always had been something of a likable maverick. His first album, Mellow Gold, introduced his sound: blending rural rockabilly and urban jangle into...