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...ways that are titillating to adolescent males, yet give their dates the impression that something inspiring is being said about female empowerment. It is, on both counts, just a tease. The best you can say for this version of Charlie's Angels is that it retains a sort of chipper, eerie good nature as it wastes the studio's money and our time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Fallen Angels | 11/13/2000 | See Source »

...ways that are titillating to adolescent males, yet give their dates the impression that something inspiring is being said about female empowerment. It is, on both counts, just a tease. The best you can say for this version of "Charlie's Angels" is that it retains a sort of chipper, eerie good nature as it wastes the studio's money and our time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fallen Angels | 11/1/2000 | See Source »

...then a nice, chipper waitress wearing a red apron leans over the table. "Would you like rice with your Crispy Chicken...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani and Christina B. Rosenberger, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Food Fight | 10/6/2000 | See Source »

...ORDINARY PEOPLE The theme of Robert Redford's directorial debut is that boating rips families apart. After Conrad (Timothy Hutton) fails to save his big brother in a storm on Lake Michigan, he attempts suicide. After he returns home from the mental institution, his coldly chipper mom (Mary Tyler Moore) is speaking for herself when she complains, "I don't think people want to be with him." Conrad blames himself for his brother's death, even though the real murderers are the droves of psychopathic molecules composed of two parts hydrogen, one part oxygen. He does quit the swim team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Nonswimmer's 25 Scariest Movies | 6/26/2000 | See Source »

Every morning, I come into work, relatively chipper and ready to face the day. Problem is, more mornings than not, I'm met with the dispiriting news that a new high-tech bug is stalking my computer. By 10:30 or so, I've reached a state of low-grade panic; I have a third cup of coffee and imagine the virus circling my e-mail in-box like a vulture hunting for injured prey. And I know I'm in for it, because let's face facts: In the grand scheme of the Internet world, I'm roughly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Kind of Germ Creates a Computer Virus? | 6/20/2000 | See Source »

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