Search Details

Word: spandex (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

What would the Flying Tomato do? If Shaun White could trade in his baggies for spandex and his board for a pair of quarter-inch blades (and maybe cut his hair) to compete in men's figure skating, would he do it? Would he do the quad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lysacek's Gold: Are Olympic Skaters Playing It Too Safe? | 2/19/2010 | See Source »

...down to Haiti to visit my family and report on the earthquake's destruction. Now tents can sell on the street for a hundred dollars each, if you can find one. One woman says she'd been walking all day looking for one. She was dressed in a tight spandex lime green shirt, her hair neatly coiffed. She said she offered a man 1,500 Gourdes or $40 for one and he just laughed. "We are just making our homes out of sheets but what will happen when it rains?" she tells me. "What will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Port-au-Prince, the Smell of Death, the Odor of Corruption | 2/6/2010 | See Source »

...addition, at this year’s Halloween football game, Harvard’s trouncing of Dartmouth may have been less memorable than a new, unknown mascot, who consistently appeared on the Jumbotron completely hidden in a suit of crimson spandex...

Author: By Alexandra J. Mihalek, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: How To Become A Crimson Superfan | 11/12/2009 | See Source »

However, as crimson-spandex guy and the women’s basketball team have showed, superfandom at Harvard is both possible and appreciated...

Author: By Alexandra J. Mihalek, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: How To Become A Crimson Superfan | 11/12/2009 | See Source »

Plus, many Olympic speedskaters don't take themselves too seriously. "We're Olympic athletes, and that in itself deserves respect," says Katherine Reutter, a short-track skater who will be competing in her first Olympics in Vancouver. "But we race around in little circles in full-body spandex. There's plenty of stuff to make fun of." And who knows? Those jokes may pay for her medal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colbert to the Rescue: Can He Save U.S. Speedskating? | 11/3/2009 | See Source »

| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | Next