Word: spurting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Engineers. At about the same time came a country jamboree called the Baldknobbers, named for a legendary vigilante group, and still a top attraction. But it was not until 1983, when Roy Clark's Celebrity Theater began to bring big names to town, that the strip began its growth spurt...
...That the image refracted in the media-crazed mirror never settles is hypnotizing. Her throwaway line "Experience has made me rich/ And now they're after me," from her tune Material Girl, seems more a wily prophecy than mere egoistic cant. Her latest public catharsis -- a quantum artistic growth spurt, if you will -- is Truth or Dare. It is a panoramic, emetic, beauty-marks-and-all, feature-length autobiographical documentary shot during her Blond Ambition tour. The film, which opens nationally on May 17, is a celebrity voyeur's feast that draws its substance from the dark well of Madonna...
...movie, and they don't know how to turn a book into a movie. So they're buying up a lot of books. And from these they will get screenplays that just don't work. Once that happens, they will move on to the next thing. It goes in spurts. Right now, this is the book spurt...
Harvard fought back from a 21-14 first-half deficit to tie the game, 23-23, with seven minutes remaining before intermission. But the Elis then went on a 13-2 run over the next four minutes. McCready had six points during the spurt, all on second-chance layups. Center Cacey Cammann (13 points) hit two fastbreak layups during...
...blood and blood-vessel walls. Over time, these sticky fragments aggregate to form what Brownlee calls "biological superglue." Like a splinter lodged in a foot, this superglue is a source of constant irritation, which signifies, to the body, damage in need of repair. The disastrous result: a spurt of new growth that thickens the walls of capillaries and arteries, constricts blood flow and damages critical organs...