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Word: spotting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...three-point arc, just right of the top of the key. The last time Harvard visited Princeton, when the Tigers emerged victorious and snapped the Crimson's 29-game Ivy League winning streak, Russell had a chance to win the game on a three-pointer from the same spot. She was wide open and her shot seemed on line, but it found only the back...

Author: By Jamal K. Greene, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Road-Weary: W. Hoops Eliminated | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

...then West took over. First she dribbled unobstructed from the left wing across the lane for a baseline lay-in. Then she nailed a spot-up three-pointer from the top of the key. For her next performance, she hit a jumper in the lane off a Penn break...

Author: By Jamal K. Greene, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Road-Weary: W. Hoops Eliminated | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

...first column, we'll play two rounds of an ice-breaker called "Two truths and a lie." Spot the lie from the following to win: a) I am a citizen of no country whatsoever; b) I have a blood brother; c) I almost became a runway model. The answer appears at the bottom...

Author: By Alexander T. Nguyen, | Title: Two Truths and a Lie | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

...just how do you spot a shady soothsayer? Pump her for lottery numbers and see if she gets them right? Not quite. According to the New York State penal code, a person is guilty of fortunetelling if he or she purports to be "able, by claimed or pretended use of occult powers, to answer questions or give advice on personal matters or to exorcise, influence or affect evil spirits or curses." Now, that would seem to apply to the horoscope in the back pages of, say, the New York Daily News. There is, however, an exception. Fortunetelling is legal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I See a Policeman In Your Future... | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

...memoir, is that it refuses to be awful--viewers expecting camp will do better trolling VH1 for Cher videos. The story of Sonny and Cher's rise and fall, comeback and dissolution is standard-issue backstage drama, albeit one with more bobcat vests than usual. Renee Faia does a spot-on Cher, suggesting humanity beneath the tics. Jay Underwood gets Sonny's doofiness but not, one realizes in its absence, the wimpy vulnerability that made him tolerable. The revelations, then, are that Sonny's stage persona was not just one dimensional--one-and-a-half, say--and that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Beat Goes On | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

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