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...movie sources - Saturday-matinee serials, John Cassavetes improv dramas, European angst-athons - and if they got excessive, it was in kitsch and violence, not sex. Rodriguez got some puffs of grindhouse steam going in Sin City; but here, he and Tarantino are as puritanical as their predecessors. All bang-bang, no French kiss-kiss...
...trip at the plate on top of his ever-solid glove work, freshman slugger Andrew Prince displayed his middle-of-the-order power, and junior right-hander Brad Unger delivered the best pitching performance of his collegiate career.HARVARD 10, BARRY 5The Crimson ended its trip with a bang, rapping out 16 hits en route to an easy 10-5 win over Barry (18-19). Seven of the starters had multiple hits, led by Stoeckel (3-for-5) and sophomore Matt Rogers (three RBI), as Harvard posted crooked numbers in the third, fifth, and seventh innings. Utility man Max Warren...
...Democratic lawmakers in Texas argue that the change would boost the influence of Hispanic voters on the nomination process. Their Republican counterparts tout the change as a way for Texans to get more bang for the considerable bucks they pour into Presidential politics. But in the end, if state legislators in both parties decide to make the change, it may have little to do with national politics. "It's an incumbent protection act," says Harvey Kronberg, editor of The Quorum Report, a nonpartisan Austin-based political newsletter. "An early February primary means that challengers will have to file in early...
...past century. You're reminded of that all through "Wack! Art and the Feminist Revolution," a pinwheel of an exhibition that runs through July 16 at the Geffen Contemporary outpost of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. "Wack!" which was curated by Cornelia Butler, starts with a bang. It's called Abakan Red, a coarsely woven, more or less circular bolt of red cloth. Suspended from the ceiling almost to the floor, it was made in 1969 by the great Polish sculptor Magdalena Abakanowicz, an early adopter of "humble" women's crafts like weaving as high-art techniques...
...trial opened with a bang on January 23, as the elegant Theodore Wells declared that White House officials were making his client a scapegoat to protect presidential adviser Karl Rove. Washington salivated over the suggestion of a rift in the Bush Administration, but it came to naught. The defense never offered any testimony to back up the claim, and by the end of the trial, it was largely forgotten...