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...people who dressed well that we care about. It’s the dresses that made us want to gag that really count. Poor Uma Thurman. A woman who consistently wears some of the finest clothes in the fashion world, Uma must have had a blunt object hit her before the show, because her pseudo-kimono-warrior-princess dress was absurd. Her ensemble was either a feeble attempt at educating herself on international culture or a cheap promotion for Kill Bill. Either way, this mishap will be forgiven but not forgotten...

Author: By Thea S. Morton, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fashionistas Wow and Woe on the Oscar Red Carpet | 3/5/2004 | See Source »

Inspired as much by Renaissance iconography, the Stations of the Cross and the Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary as by the Gospels' terse narratives, Gibson portrays Jesus' agony and death in acute and lavish detail. In the end, all that gore tends to blunt not only the story's natural power but even the sense of horror at what a god-man has to endure to save all men. The Passion may be unique in movie history in devoting most of its length to the torture of one man who doesn't fight back. He takes a flaying and keeps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: The Goriest Story Ever Told | 3/1/2004 | See Source »

...Lost in Translation’s Bill Murray a nose ahead of Sean Penn. I personally felt Ben Kingsley had the performance of the year, and his visceral anguish in House of Sand and Fog was a masterfully controlled performance, especially when contrasted with Penn’s rather blunt stabs at the agony of child loss (slam table here, deliver choked up yelp there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: And the Awards Should Go To... | 2/27/2004 | See Source »

...there any easy way to stop spim? All IM programs give you the blunt option of blocking individual users (known as "bozo filters") or receiving IMs only from people on your contact lists. And all the services can identify and block some spim before it reaches your screen. But only ICQ, a popular IM program available at icq.com, lets you filter messages more selectively by blocking all Web links (most porn spim have links in them) or certain offensive words. You can even block any bulk IMs that were sent to several users simultaneously. None of these moves will totally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: You've Got Spim! | 2/23/2004 | See Source »

...departure. But if they wait for the rebels to take over, then when Aristide goes their own hand will be weak because the rebels will be running the show. So, their other choice is to accept the peace proposal laid out by the U.S. delegation, hoping that this could blunt rebel advance. But it could also generate rebel anger against the opposition, too. So the political opposition is between a rock and a hard place right now. Either they hurt their standing with the international community by resisting the peace accord, or they hurt their standing with the rebels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: A Dangerous Vacuum Grows in Haiti | 2/23/2004 | See Source »

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