Word: spotter
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...Faith Popcorn, but I love pop culture," says the 35-year-old Myers, invoking the best-selling trend spotter as he explains how he tapped into the retro zeitgeist. "I'd seen a lot of tie-dyed/Volkswagen van/hippie '60s, but not that mod/go-go boots/everybody's-a-photographer-or-in-a-band thing." For his new character's name, he thought of 007's Aston-Martin sports car. For the look, he borrowed Michael Caine's eyeglasses from The Ipcress File, Connery's thatchlike chest hair, the costumes from the Who's rock opera Quadrophenia and the grotty dentures...
Grasping both handles of the keg, lock your wrists perfectly straight. You may want to put chalk on your hands for extra grip. Kick your legs up over your head, using a spotter or spotters if necessary...
...play lacrosse and in the off-season I try to work out pretty regularly, and sometimes end up at the MAC at weird off-hours when there aren't many people there. Pretty late one weeknight I needed a spotter for the freeweights, and the only people there were this old-ish guy on the treadmill and some chick on the treadmill. She looked great but I didn't want to ask her, and this other guy who looked like he could handle it, so I asked him and he said he'd do it. I put on a couple...
CYRIL WINSICK WAS SERVING AS A forward spotter for a mortar crew when he was captured by German troops near the town of Aachen in October 1944. He spent much of the following winter being force-marched across Germany before he was liberated in April 1945. A half-century later, Winsick still can't speak of his ordeal without crying, but at least it did earn him one benefit: as a former pow, he was entitled to lifelong free medical care from the Department of Veterans Affairs. Or so he thought...
...fact, tolerance for the expansive visions of business may be coming to an end. According to the Sept. 8 issue of the American Political Report, published by trend spotter Kevin Phillips, there have been four probusiness cycles in the U.S. since 1850: the post-Civil War "Gilded Age" ending in the 1880s; the Roaring Twenties; the post-World War II expansion from 1950 to the mid-'60s; and the current cycle, which began in the late '70s and has seen the merger mania of the '80s extend into the present. All previous cycles lasted about 12 to 20 years...