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Word: chasings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Woah. Eagles designated hitter Tony Sanchez, who has "slugger" tatooed on his forehead, smashes a fastball that darts foul at the last second to prevent a home run. Hofeld learns his lesson, and gets Tony to chase a breaking ball in the dirt...

Author: By Crimson Sports Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: LIVE BLOG: Baseball Beanpot - Harvard vs. BC at Fenway Park | 4/13/2009 | See Source »

...Final Destination” movie and have a good time; for a little more, you can get video games in which you can deal drugs and kill prostitutes. We can sign up for breaking news updates on our cell phones, so we never miss a car chase or a police standoff.To say that Americans have become desensitized in the last 30 years is a cliché, but it’s true. This therefore raises the question: does the footage of caskets being pulled from cargo jets have the same effect that it once did? It will always...

Author: By Andrew F. Nunnelly, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Desensitized American Psyche | 4/10/2009 | See Source »

...says action films can't address today's most pressing international issues? Fast & Furious, the fourth episode in Universal's car-chase franchise, tells the story of professional drivers toting heroin across the border into California and corralling the villainous Mr. Big. The movie solves the auto-buying drought and the Mexican drug wars in one huge testosterone fantasy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weekend Box Office: Fast & Furious by a Mile | 4/5/2009 | See Source »

...Boiled down to its essentials, F&F is four pretty swell auto-race video games - on a highway, across city streets, through a mountain tunnel, then in an all-terrain chase with a tunnel reprise - encased in the bloated carcass of a script by Chris Morgan that must have been researched in the Archive of Movie Clichés. In these interminable interstices, audiences in the theater can take a popcorn break or enjoy a snooze. Viewers of the DVD are luckier; they know how to find scene selection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fast & Furious: Auto Eroticism | 4/3/2009 | See Source »

...Morgan or the stunt supervisors may have peeked at the 1954 car-chase movie called The Fast and the Furious, which also begins with a truck careering down a winding road, crashing and bursting into flames - except in the original, the whole thing took exactly 10 seconds. The opening scene runs about 10 minutes and is a smartly choreographed ballet mécanique. But Rodriguez's character isn't around much longer; Letty gets killed soon after. Fortunately, when Dom examines the crime scene, he turns out to have skills as both a specialist in tire-tread forensics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fast & Furious: Auto Eroticism | 4/3/2009 | See Source »

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