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  • Soundman Mark put on some dark sunglasses and appeared to be just hanging out in the sun, girl-watching, but he was, in fact, blocking view of the camera in-between takes, allowing Ingo to film the suspicious guards surreptitiously.

    UNDER THE SWELTERING SUN philip j cunningham 2009

  • Mr. Genensky himself used a pair of "monster binoculars" for reading signs, a footlong spyglass for attending the ballet or sporting events, and an odd-looking compound lens mounted on glasses for walking the streets and "even girl-watching," as he once said.

    An Inventor Whose Blindness Was Just a Legal Technicality 2009

  • Soundman Mark put on some dark sunglasses and appeared to be just hanging out in the sun, girl-watching, but he was, in fact, blocking view of the camera in-between takes, allowing Ingo to film the suspicious guards surreptitiously.

    Archive 2009-06-01 philip j cunningham 2009

  • Ms. ORBISON: The song "Pretty Woman" was like Bruce Springsteen said, it's the best girl-watching rock 'n' roll song ever.

    Mercy: Behind Roy Orbison's 'Pretty Woman' 2008

  • I took him to Santana Row so he could engage in some girl-watching.

    Archive 2008-08-17 papabear 2008

  • I certainly thought about it, even yearned for it, and my friends who were privy to my observations on the girl-watching front tried to tell me I needed to be "less picky".

    blog: Flailing 2008

  • It was a sporting sort of afternoon and we watched the various games being played on the sidewalk and street in front of us: parallel parking, girl-watching, boy-watching, Kerry campaign scamming, sidewalk biking, bus frequency and fullness ... you know, the regular life-filling minutiae that accompanies an iced tea or a cup of coffee.

    Archive 2004-09-01 johnny_mango 2004

  • And there is the crippling losses on the springtime girl-watching front: "But despite it all, despite the naysaying, despite the fact that the female population wraps itself from head to foot in Gore-Tex for half the year, we always knew we had one true thing: A stretch of gorgeous weather from May through September."

    The Chimes at Midnight 2006

  • It was a sporting sort of afternoon and we watched the various games being played on the sidewalk and street in front of us: parallel parking, girl-watching, boy-watching, Kerry campaign scamming, sidewalk biking, bus frequency and fullness ... you know, the regular life-filling minutiae that accompanies an iced tea or a cup of coffee.

    The Boulevardiers johnny_mango 2004

  • The girl-watching is great, as it generally is in that part of the world.

    Operation Luna Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1999

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