Word: spined
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...hear things that aren’t there—it’s just your subconscious trying to spice things up a little! Go with the flow and things should settle down soon.” Comforting words, perhaps, but a shiver still crawled up my spine...
Here are a few observations from a New York outsider. In the first weekend after Halloween, and with the spine-numbing pleasure of Paranormal Activity in many moviegoers' minds, The Fourth Kind benefitted from a beguilingly creepy ad campaign, giving glimpses of alien possession. Audiences didn't feel the same urgency, seven weeks before Christmas, to see the 467th version of A Christmas Carol, whose trailer emphasized hectic, hurtful chase scenes over the Scroogean character comedy and hearth-and-heart sentiment. As for Precious, $100,000 a screen is a feat accomplished only twice before (by Dreamgirls and Brokeback Mountain...
...Fifty years later, Plante's credited more for his good sense than lack of spine. The last professional goaltender not to wear a mask left the ice in 1974, and modern players can't imagine life without one. "I don't know if I would have played goal [without it], let's put it that way," famed New Jersey Devils goalie Martin Brodeur told NHL.com...
Tragic Flaw: Has no spine...
...would that bookstore even look? You could do it by color of the spine. You could do it by how big the book was. All the little books over here and all the big books over there...