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Word: spinks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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JAMES LAMB, president of Spink America, coin subsidiary of Christie's New York: "The French franc has been a well-designed and elegant little coinage that's always had a certain class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: May 18, 1998 | 5/18/1998 | See Source »

...perversely, the movie's only thoroughly bad person, one Howard Spink (Philip Jackson), who more or less mobilizes everyone. He purports to be a construction consultant, and it's he who arranges the contractors for the job on the bathroom. They are the Nunn Brothers, and since they are identical twins (both played by Phil Daniels), they add immeasurably to the confusion in the McAllister household. Along the way Spink seduces the more vulnerable of Ellie's friends (she even supplies him with the change he needs to buy the requisite condom), cheats the Nunns, presents an exorbitant bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reality Check | 9/6/1993 | See Source »

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