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...really flare sometimes," he says. "People seem to use [IMs] as an outlet. They let their anger out on the court." True to Giampaolo's words, a thrown elbow in a recent Winthrop-Lowell frisbee game came dangerously close to launching the entire affair into a Jerry Springer-style brawl, as players from both teams had to be separated by a vaguely muscular bald guy wearing black jeans from...

Author: By Allison M. Fitzgerald, | Title: are we getting it all wrong? | 11/19/1998 | See Source »

...holiday has managed to retain some of its Old English flair, with effigy-burning, dressing up, and drinking to the long life of the Queen. In colonial Boston, Guy Fawkes Day was solemnly observed with a day-long brawl between the residents of the North and South Ends...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: guy fawkes day | 11/5/1998 | See Source »

...Heading the investigation is Captain Hank Quinlan, played by a padded and bloated Welles. When Quinlan's abuse of power proves too great an affront to Vargas' moral sensibilities, he soon involves both himself and his newlywed American wife, played by a feisty Janet Leigh, in the cutthroat bordertown brawl between good and evil. Billed as "The strangest vengeance ever planned!" Touch of Evil also provides some fairly strange casting (yes, even beyond the choice of Heston as Mexican). Among the cameos dotting the border landscape are Marlene Dietrich as a gypsy, Zsa Zsa Gabor as a madam, and Mercedes...

Author: By Jen S. Wu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Bye Mancini, Hello Mariachi | 10/2/1998 | See Source »

...other side of the uncharted town is the raucous, gaudy, hooting, dominating brawl of Tonight Show hooraw and tabloid democracy, a raw 42nd Street and 24-hour chat room of American public opinion--an unceasing electronic noise that permeates, informs and corrupts America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Familiar Uncharted Territory | 9/21/1998 | See Source »

Stephan is expected to wind up his investigation this fall, but a trial, if it occurs, is not likely to take place until at least mid-1999. The civil phase, which will almost certainly spill over into the next century, is apt to wind up in an unseemly brawl involving the Ritz, al Fayed, the bodyguards, the paparazzi, Etoile Limousine and, of course, the insurance companies. Meanwhile, al Fayed continues to pursue his own investigation and to defend his son's reputation, keeping his London and Paris apartments eerily intact. "It is like the Egyptian pyramids," he says. "When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mystery In The Details | 8/31/1998 | See Source »

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