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...This year, the oxen sniffed contemplatively at several of the trays. One then wandered away from the plentiful buffet. As the crowd held its collective breath, the other finally deigned to chew half the corn on offer before it, too, moseyed off. The outcome was grim: a drought, for sure, since no water was drunk, and a poor harvest to boot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What the Cows Foretell | 5/22/2007 | See Source »

...Exchanges like that one kept the debate - the only one before Sunday's runoff election - bubbling on for more than a half hour beyond its schedule; the two journalists at the square table as moderators were reduced to essentially throwing out bait for the pair to chew on. Royal, dressed soberly in a white collared shirt and black blazer, kept her eyes riveted on Sarkozy (blue suit and striped tie) as she unrolled ideas as she saw fit rather than in the ordered sequence the moderators vainly tried to preserve. Several times they had to intervene to give Sarkozy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Royal, Sarkozy: Toe-to-Toe in France | 5/3/2007 | See Source »

...raise kids if you happen to be in this business. It is difficult for them. I am very glad we got out. For me it's difficult to do it [make movies] when we are 3,000 miles away. It is even more difficult for women. They just chew ?em up and spit them out after they reach a certain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: More Questions with Chevy Chase | 4/16/2007 | See Source »

...Planet Terror, Rodriguez's half of Grindhouse, a go-go dancer (Rose McGowan) loses a leg when zombies chew it off--wait, it gets weirder--and instead of a prosthetic limb has her stump fitted with a machine gun, which she uses to mow down acres of the undead. Death Proof, Tarantino's contribution, presents two trios of high-adrenaline chicks menaced by a psycho stunt driver. The women in both entries love guns and cars and don't mind using them for righteous vengeance and reckless thrills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Big Picture: Why Can't a Woman ... Be a Man? | 4/5/2007 | See Source »

...over my head--my precocious older sister, who later became a mathematician, and even later a sculptor, was the real target audience--but it was playfully written and deeply weird and off-the-charts smart and generally just the thing for a household of pretentious, alienated adolescents to chew on. My siblings and I weren't especially close, but we always had that book in common: it was our secret shared nerd bible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Year of Mathemagical Thinking | 3/15/2007 | See Source »

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