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Word: spotting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Junior Mary Unsworth (18:13) finished right behind Helms claiming the 23rd spot overall, and sophomore Leann Hymas (18:14) finished next in 24th. Both runners ran personal best times...

Author: By Elizabeth M. Lewis, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Athletes of the Week: W. Cross-Country Team | 10/19/1999 | See Source »

...your old record player. It's probably somewhere down there in the basement behind your broken-down Betamax, a Rubik's Cube or two, and a vinyl copy of Synchronicity. Cue up a record, and let it play. Congratulations--you're a musician. There may even be a spot for you on the rap-rock Family Values Tour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Rock's New Spin | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

Maree Florence has a spot reserved in her living room for at least an hour each day. The ritual is simple; she sits down, calls a friend and turns on the TV. She's not interested in following the inflated antics on General Hospital or in catching the latest familial betrayal on Jerry Springer. Instead, she turns on the back-to-back A Wedding Story and A Baby Story--half-hour shows about real couples getting married and having kids--on TLC daytime. "I cry at every one," says the 21-year-old Georgia mom. "I can't help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Labor, Love and Ratings | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

...Diary, translated by Ann Goldstein, purports to be an on-the-spot account of the sad tryst of a girl and her stepfather--the "real" story behind Humbert's besotted ravings in a book titled Lolita. We are told that Dolores ("Lolita") Maze (not Haze) met Humbert Guibert (not Humbert) in the home of her mother Isabel (not Charlotte); that Humbert took a fancy to Lo; that he married the mother to get to the daughter; that on the mother's death, Hum and Lo took to the open road, fitfully pursued by the girl's true love, playwright Gerry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Humming Along With Nabokov | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

...little school. When the Kraussers weren't wearing shorts and T shirts, they were in swimsuits. After four hours' work under the blazing morning sun, they had afternoons free and soon discovered a beautiful sweeping sand beach frequented only by a few local families. "This became our favorite spot," John says, "where we would swim, sunbathe and read." Surrounded by all that beauty, who wouldn't put up with an air mattress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Lend a Helping Hand | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

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