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...North House Committee held its first Quad-wide Olympics Sunday, featuring 11 unconventional events ranging from pie-throwing to balloon-shaving...
Here we go again -- another gore gourmand acting out fantasies of aggression for the grind-house trade. Well, no. For a start, Tarantino's films are energized not so much by violence as by its threat; it's in the air like a balloon ready to explode. More important, Tarantino, 31, sees movie violence as a vivid visual correlative for the internal agitation of urban America, for all those people who believe their lives are a pitched battle for self- preservation. If he romanticizes his gunmen, he also anchors them in vulnerability, stupidity and the blinkered loyalty...
Even so, the Crimson held the lead--for a short time. But for Providence, the game was like an expanding water balloon, only needing a tiny break to bust it open...
...flying coach from New York City's La Guardia to O'Hare and on to LAX and Denver to introduce himself to his new employers. And Mary Beth Andrews, who has worked at United since John F. Kennedy was President, was sharing pizza with co-workers in her balloon-filled Chicago ticket office and delaying her decision to retire. "We don't need champagne," she insisted. "We're giddy enough...
...common human virus may play an integral role in coronary disease, according to preliminary findings by National Institutes of Health researchers, by inhibiting the action of a gene that normally limits cell growth. Up to half of patients who undergo balloon angioplasty to relieve arterial blockages suffer renewed arterial narrowing within six months. Researchers may have ! identified the cause: the cytomegalovirus, which appears to limit the protective benefits of the p53 gene, thus leading to the regrowth of muscle cells in vessels treated with angioplasty...