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Word: spined (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most of the things he learned to use later: family, sports, conflict, movies. The young jock wrote stories -- he tried to compile a book based on letters and tapes Dan sent back from Viet Nam -- and went to the movies. "Great heroism, great love stories sent chills down my spine," he recalls. "I was particularly intrigued by 'dilemmas.' To me, drama is dilemma -- the fight not to do something. A dilemma is wanting to kiss a woman and not doing it. Once you do it, it's 'action.' Action is fine. I understand what it's about. But you have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kevin Costner: Pursuing The Dream | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

...innocently sitting at my desk, reading my roommate's diary, when a horrible chill swept up my spine. I spun around to discover that the precious piece of cloth which has rested upon my pillow for 19 years was missing. No Blankie...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Bring Back My Blankie | 5/3/1989 | See Source »

...have to have sex with all the members? Well, how many does she have left? How can Joe be in the Pi? Isn't there a minimum drinking requirement? Besides, I thought he was cut from the team. Oh, I hope Mary tells us another spine-tingling tale of action and adventure involving her research on cell division...

Author: By Rob Greenstein, | Title: Hitting the Champagne Crunch | 4/17/1989 | See Source »

Most Cambridge development has occurred along what Sullivan calls "the spine of the, city"--the transit lines along Mass. Ave. The concentration of hotels and high-rises in areas like Harvard and Kendall Squares, he says, is the result of a conscious effort to keep projects out of residential areas...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Robert Healy and the Role of City Manager | 2/9/1989 | See Source »

...band, which has two featured singers and seven rambunctious musicians besides Don and his compadre David Was, has a distinctive, daffy humor, a rhythmic sense that is honed until it gleams and a stiff spine about matters of conscience. Once badgered by market-wary Geffen Records, as Don puts it, to "get rid of the black guys," Was (Not Was) hung tough. Same as they did when told by another company there would be no band pictures, "because we don't want black radio to see they're white, and we don't want white radio to see they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Chocolate-Covered Razor Blades And other treats from a fun funk band | 1/30/1989 | See Source »

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