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...diary fall open of itself to any passage, and most likely something reprehensible lives upon the page. Yet, Aaron says, read as a whole, one finds the self-deception. Arthur contradicts himself. He is a blowhard. He knows it. Then something happens. Blam! He blows harder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Boston: Inside a Tortured Mind | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...Swollen duo. While the track is pleasing to the ear, it again slips into a well-traveled rap niche: violence. Gun-shot blasts are sampled into the chorus where Son Doobie shouts, “Y’all can’t stop Swollen Members—BLAM-BLAM...

Author: By Thomas J. Clarke, James Crawford, Thalia S. Field, Andrew R. Iliff, P. PATTY Li, Michael T. Packard, Matthew F. Quirk, and Marcus L. Wang, CRIMSON STAFFS | Title: GimmeGimmeGimme | 12/7/2001 | See Source »

...escapism, using a combination of vibrant art and fantastic stories to bring the adventures of larger-than-life heroes and dastardly villains to life. Marked by the trademark use of word balloons (often filled with colorful word-sounds like “Pow!”, “Blam!” and “Kaboom!”), comics were a unique and distinctive art form that captured the wide-eyed imaginations of children everywhere...

Author: By Richard Ho, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Beyond the Panels | 4/20/2001 | See Source »

...will recall that in the cartoon, Bugs Bunny, the great American trickster, won that exchange by the simple expedient of reversing the order and insisting that it was, indeed, wabbit season. Which led the witless Duck to insist, in his turn, that it was, damn it, duck season. BLAM...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: With Apologies Like This, Who Needs Insults? | 4/9/2001 | See Source »

Annie Proulx twirls words like a black-hat badman twirling Colts, fires them off for the sheer hell of it, blam, blam, no thought of missing, empty beer cans jump in the dust, misses one, laughs, reloads, blams some more. Something like that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: On Strange Ground | 5/17/1999 | See Source »

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