Word: lapping
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...course, two laps of a 5K loop, concluded with a long hill. The incline posed little challenge to McLoon, who powered through her second lap to take the victory...
...best foreign-language film, achieves moments of quiet beauty as well. Ma sheds confused tears at the mention of Balzac's Chinese translator, punished as a reactionary like Ma's father; Luo reads Ursule Mirouet out loud as if it were freshly written, while the seamstress lies in his lap and dreams of a new world...
...High-profile scandals haven't helped. Last April, returnee Huynh Quoc Quang was sentenced to life in prison for bilking people out of at least $10,000 with false promises of American work visas. The following month, police began chasing Ho Tran Lap, a Viet Kieu businessman accused of running an illegal long-distance calling service; he's still on the lam. And on Jan. 16, a Vietnamese-American who runs a company in Ho Chi Minh City that makes brushes and combs was stabbed in the forehead?the result, police suspect, of a business dispute...
...what seals the deal. Kirk, who majored in art at the Cleveland Institute of Art, paints Miss Spider's rotund little body and curlicue hair in bold, almost hallucinatory colors, with outsize eyes and eyelashes and her world in equally poppy hues--just garish and cutesy enough that children lap it up. And not only children. Miss Spider moved from moderately well known fictional character to pop-cultural boldface name when Madonna read Tea Party at a nightclub event that was broadcast live on MTV in 1995. Suddenly the divine Miss S. was a favorite of college kids and found...
...lost at least once. Then she walked outside and hailed a cab. "I went, 'Whew!' and collapsed in the back seat," Rowley remembers. She headed back to the airport, secure in the comfort that comes from taking a steaming load of worry and shifting it onto the boss's lap. Says her husband: "I remember her saying, 'I hope somebody reads...