Word: spinned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fellowships or who bought suits for on-campus recruiting sophomore year. While I remain fully confused, with the raw materials of my life scattered around me, they are building their little worlds. They have a job, a place to live, a new routine ready to swallow them up and spin them around a few times. They are ready to disappear into these worlds, populated by a few friends, a boss, some coworkers and a neighbor or two. The rest of the world will be at their fingertips, but they will have no real impact on anyone or anything outside their...
WHAT'S THE MAIN DIFFERENCE BETWEEN YOU AND YOUR CHINESE ARCHRIVALS? Lindsay: "We're both long and tall [for divers]. They are really short. They can spin really fast...
...track at Talladega is so big--2.66 miles--that between 20,000 and 30,000 fans can set up their campers on the infield and watch the race from there. It's like a small city, with good neighborhoods and bad. Guys with pickups spin doughnuts in the mud, then stand an Ellie May or a Daisy up in the back and drive slowly through cheering throngs. When the girl collects enough Mardi Gras beads from slobbering Bubbas, she answers their obscene chant with a lift of her shirt. Fights break out. Sirens wail. It's like spring break, except...
...Equal Music is almost unbearably sudsy, a huge disappointment for the legions of A Suitable Boy fans waiting to see what magic Seth could possibly spin next. Crammed with intriguing detail about the world of classical music, it is the story of Michael, a violinist in a string quartet, who is reunited with his long-lost love, Julia. But the writing is more than a little groan inducing: "She kisses me. I hold her in that soundless room, far from daylight and the traffic of Bayswater and all the webs of the world. She holds me as if she could...
...SPIN When CD players first arrived in 1982, audiophiles complained that the tinny digital recordings lacked the warmth of analog LPs. Now Super Audio CD, a new format co-created by Sony and Philips, uses a simplified digitization process to put the subtlety of LP sound on clear, hiss-free compact discs. SACD debuts this month in Japan, and will go on sale in the U.S. in the fall. The true test? Whether a generation raised on Discman can tell the difference...