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...that touches the statues in Annenberg to make them beep,” When said of his blockmate Hamovic. “He is that...

Author: By Ravi Agrawal, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: First-Years Scheme, Pray on Eve of Housing Judgment | 3/21/2002 | See Source »

...glory years (1946-57), Jones directed about 100 cartoons, seven-minute mini-masterpieces of character shading and comic subtlety. Along with scriptwriter Michael Maltese, he created the bon-vivant skunk Pepe Le Pew, the beep-beep Road Runner and his perennially flummoxed pursuer Wile E. Coyote. They devised brilliant one-offs such as One Froggy Evening, a lovely parable of exploitation (whose singing star, Michigan J. Frog, later became the character logo for the WB network), and the sublime Feed the Kitty, about a bulldog's desperate attempts to protect a kitten prone to domestic disaster. Put that on your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chuck Reducks | 3/4/2002 | See Source »

Instead of cell phones, many deaf people use instant messaging and pagers set to vibrate rather than beep. "A few hours after the body was found," says Goldenbaum, "everyone [in deaf America] knew. They knew in California. They knew in New York." And shortly afterward they knew that Minch, who had been in New Hampshire, could not have committed the crime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Murder In A Silent Place | 6/25/2001 | See Source »

...drunk left in a dive bar at closing time. White is a country singer, but not necessarily from any country on this planet: several of the songs on this album were produced by members of the trip-hop band Morcheeba, and drawing from that group's spirit, the tracks beep and buzz and whir like UFOs zipping across a prairie sky. There are a couple of meandering stretches where the disparate elements don't quite come together, but any CD that features titles like Handcuffed to a Fence in Mississippi and God Was Drunk When He Made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: No Such Place | 3/5/2001 | See Source »

...when you're in an airport, several companies make fancy motion-sensor alarms that beep distressingly if someone tries to walk off with your machine (for example, while you're in a phone booth). The winner here is the Defcon 3 ($129), a laptop case from Targus that has a motion alarm built in. As a Targus representative puts it, the Defcon 3 is "a sexy unit"; no less studly a geek than Harry Connick Jr. carries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Laptop Security | 12/18/2000 | See Source »

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