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...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... [Tarantino] sees movie violence as a vivid visual correlative for the internal agitation of urban America... Tarantino's movies are smartly intoxicating cocktails of rampage and meditation; they're in-your-face... There's never silence when Tarantino is in the room. This engaging, nonstop performer... moved to Southern California when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 11/10/2003 | See Source »

...hospital bed, and her expression blooms from slack-jawed passivity to beatific smile. She seems happy, comforted, aware--at least those are the interpretations the naive viewer would be inclined to apply. There are other brief videos on terrisfight.org In one, Schiavo seems to follow the movements of a balloon with her eyes; in another, she appears to comply with a doctor's request to open her eyes. "Good job, young lady," says the doctor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Twilight Zone Of Consciousness | 10/27/2003 | See Source »

...This will certainly put a little more hot air in the balloon,” Murray said...

Author: By Stephen M. Marks, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: NIH Awards Genomic Center with $15M Grant | 9/17/2003 | See Source »

Twenty-four hours afterward, you could be forgiven for wondering whether Bombay's deadliest terrorist attack in a decade had really happened. The freshly scrubbed pavements around the Gateway to India were heaving once again with beggars, tourists and balloon sellers. Uptown in Zaveri Bazaar, the gold and silver traders had taken it upon themselves to bag up all the stray limbs, hair, teeth and fingers, boarded up their broken windows and opened for business. Commuters packed trains as usual, and the stock market soared to a 29-month high. The newspapers all but ignored the 52 people killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bloody Monday | 9/1/2003 | See Source »

...having no difficulty staying out of postwar Iraq as long as the U.S. remains the top authority there. Last week a top State Department official suggested that Washington might consider a United Nations-sponsored multinational force as long as it was led by an American commander. That trial balloon was proof that an overburdened U.S. hasn't entirely given up on luring old Europe aboard. And success isn't out of the question: a TIME/CNN poll last week found that 62% of French citizens surveyed would support their troops being sent to Iraq; 44% of Germans questioned would support...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To The Rescue | 8/31/2003 | See Source »

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