Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This weekend we focused on playing solidly, doing what we need do to win and not making mistakes," said junior Shondip Ghosh, who played in the No. 2 spot. "It is important to gear up for each match mentally...
Suha Arafat had said she wanted visibility. But the First Lady of Palestine surely didn't have in mind her starring role in a new ad sponsored by the Washington-based Jewish Republican Coalition. Taking a swipe at U.S. Senate candidate Hillary Clinton, the TV spot shows Mrs. Clinton, on a recent trip to the West Bank, listening blank-faced to provocative anti-Israeli comments by Mrs. Arafat and then pecking her on the cheek. It's clear what the viewer is meant to think: Yech...
...wheel his Porsche over to Berkeley city hall for his own wedding. He founded Softbank Corp. in Tokyo in 1981. Legend has it that after he stood atop a crate and ranted about the company's future domination of the PC industry, his first two employees quit on the spot. Despite that vote of no confidence, Softbank went on to become Japan's leading software distributor...
...time he died, in 1978, Rockwell occupied a place somewhere between Vermeer and Disney, a hard spot to locate, much less evaluate. But whatever else he was, Rockwell was the road not traveled. You go through this show wondering what 20th century art might have been like if it had not been so quick to put aside anecdote, draftsmanship and the raptures of watching paint do its dead-on imitations of other stuff. In short, what it might have been like if it valued more what Rockwell did. Given the essential places where painting had to go, places where Rockwell...
...pool in his West Hollywood apartment building, which was populated by call girls. "I think I put a couple of them in Berkshire Hathaway and made them a lot of money," he says. His skills are so well known, he boasts, that pros he's never met spot him at bars and ask about mutual funds...