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...entrance. The women snuck in the exit, and when the manager went to chase them, I walked in. By the time I got to the chicken section, there were quite a number of customers gathered around. I delivered my lines--"Stay away from the birds!" and "Give a cluck!"--to which one woman yelled, "I'm going to have myself a nice, juicy chicken!" and two old guys started making vehement bokking noises at me. One woman asked if pork was O.K. "Go ahead! Eat all the pork you can!" I squawked. The Commando Chicks weren't too happy with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My Chicken Run | 8/7/2000 | See Source »

...wince or cluck when civilians die in the course of a war we support, but most of us keep our eyes on the prize and accept the "collateral damage." There's no way to make the proverbial omelet, after all, without breaking a few eggs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Undiplomatic Dispatch: Iraq Sanctions Are Nasty, and They Don't Work | 7/25/2000 | See Source »

Despite her tender age, dewy appearance, lack of familiarity with one of the century's greatest directors and the mother-hen protectiveness of her agent and publicist, who cluck around her worrying about what the actress, who is eight months' pregnant, will wear to the film's New York premiere, it is clear that Morton is not some frail newcomer. As she likes to remind interviewers, she has racked up many television and film credits over the past decade, doing the obligatory bbc costume dramas and a handful of little-seen films. She came to Allen's attention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Her Silence Is Golden | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

...opponent is a pencil-necked geek) 60% of the vote, and two months after his Inauguration, he starts to brown around the edges and disillusionment sets in, starting with the people who once worshiped the ground he trod on and now see that, alas, he is a dumb cluck like everyone else and has no solutions for problems such as ignorance and cruelty and the aging process...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Minnesota: Let Jesse Ventura Be Jesse... | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

...From Tom To: Meg Don't get me started on this Cab recording thing. What about the cab driver? I am an adult. If I choose not to buckle my seat belt it's my own fault. If I forget my backpack or wallet I am a stupid cluck who deserves to lose them. But that poor fellow or gal who is trying to make a living by driving the same few square miles of Manhattan all day long, that person has to hear that thing a thousand times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: We've Got Their Mail | 12/21/1998 | See Source »

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