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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...high rollers as much as the sudden arrival of the "Steve and Kirk Show." That's Steve as in Wynn, 58, the master builder of Vegas and chairman of Mirage Resorts, whose lavish spending on casinos like the $1.6 billion Bellagio has made Mirage about as popular as snake eyes with investors on Wall Street. The Kirk is for Kerkorian, 82, the reclusive Beverly Hills billionaire with a knack for doubling his bets and winning. The rival moguls took center stage when Kerkorian's MGM Grand bid $17 a share, or $3.4 billion, for Mirage, which only the day before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Playing for A Wynn | 3/6/2000 | See Source »

Spider corpses and snake venom are among the sculptor Cornelia Parker's materials--guillotines and explosives are among her tools. These are the things that keep Parker up at night, "the things that make the hair on the back of my neck stand up," as she puts...

Author: By Teri Wang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Blow Up: Hypnotist-Collector Cornelia Parker Comes to America | 2/11/2000 | See Source »

...never so much as touched a squash racquet. My usual beat, men's hockey, has the weekend off thanks to aftermath of the Vermont hazing scandal so I just might snake down to the Murr Center to cheer on Wyant...

Author: By Mike Volonnino, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The "V" Spot: I'm a Believer | 2/10/2000 | See Source »

...while we were a little snake bitten, but to get my first hat trick at the Fleet Center is a huge thing," Baker said. "I've been watching the Beanpot since I was a kid, but the big thing is that it helped get us into the finals...

Author: By Timothy Jackson, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: M. Hockey Falls in Beanpot Opener | 2/8/2000 | See Source »

...real story, in any case, is not Gore's fight in the primaries against Bill Bradley, but rather Gore's battle with himself - his struggle to subdue his demon of weird things, the dybbuk that, for example, made him wear that necktie last night (it looked like a poisonous snake from Brazil, or a a preschooler's Crayola work) or that prompts him to claim, from time to time, to have invented electricity, Velcro, or the fax machine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Now Debating: Weird Al and Curious George | 1/27/2000 | See Source »

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