Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have money to spend on," says Joe Baum, mastermind of the dazzling art-deco aerie. Says psychologist Penny Binn, who dances at the Rainbow Room every week with her husband of 27 years: "I don't know of a place where there are so many unattainable things in one spot...
Crossing into the U.S. near the Texas town of Del Rio, I spot an old mailbox that U.S. Customs has converted into a drug drop. DEPOSIT CONTRABAND HERE BEFORE YOU ENTER THE UNITED STATES reads a sign in language that seems more suitable for an antilittering campaign. The lock on the mailbox is rusty, and a spider has built a formidable web over the chute where any law-abiding, English-speaking drug smuggler would drop his neat little packet of cocaine or heroin. While the mailbox is an extreme example of bureaucratic wishful thinking, the larger U.S. approach...
...look of a bird that has found a meteor plunked in her nest, she shrugs, "I haven't turned it on yet.") She also has no phone-answering machine, no word processor and, in most of her two-bedroom New York City duplex, no air conditioning. The coolest spot in the place is likely to be the sun-room that opens onto a small terrace. That was where she spent much of the past summer, with its Egyptian heat and rain-forest humidity, penning in revisions on the typed manuscript of her first entirely new book in a decade...
While the Crimson (4-1 overall, 4-0 Metro Region) is one of five teams already guaranteed a spot in the eight-team New England Championships, a victory over Boston University tomorrow at Soldiers Field could also give Harvard the top seed in the tournament and the Metro title outright...
...Terriers will be fighting for survival. A loss means it would end up tied with either Tufts or Northeastern for the runner-up spot...