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...friends, Ralph is the most upset by what he considers Nicky's betrayal of the group and the neighborhood. "All she wants from you is your cock and your coke," he screams at the love struck Nicky. His words are refreshing because, though vulgar, they capture the essence of Wendy's good-hearted, but casual, approach. His toughness simultaneously hides and accentuates his desire to protect Ralph...

Author: By Sarah C. Dry, | Title: Slow, Tough Climb Up `Hill' | 2/9/1995 | See Source »

...network executives talk about a war like tourists shooting a cock-fight with their Camcorders. It's just another consumer product, but this time it's new and improved, with Dolby Surround-Sound and high-definition pictures that allow you to feel like you're there! According to the Times, they have even promised that "the invasion scenes would not resemble the opening moments of the American landing in Somalia...

Author: By Patrick S. Chung, | Title: Haitian Hoopla | 9/24/1994 | See Source »

...Nicholson's transformations that lie at the heart of the movie's success. This may be slam-dunk casting, demonic being the thing we most happily pay our money to see him do. But he calibrates his shifts to the lupine -- a cock of the head, a twitch of the nostril, a panicky glint in the eye -- with delicious subtlety. Mike Nichols, the director, finds all the right angles to enhance Nicholson's effects, which are wholly a product of the actor's technique, not a makeup artist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Sympathy for the Bedeviled | 6/20/1994 | See Source »

...overalls of the whole scene. I was wondering what to do next. ((Then)) I heard a shot and saw a head jump. I lifted the camera and started shooting until the ((shooter)) turned on us, screaming in Tswana, pointing the rifle at us. Ten of his colleagues seemed to cock their rifles. So we ran away. I knew that lunacy was playing a big role . . . If any journalist, especially a white journalist, would have so much as touched those people, we would have died with them. I don't believe I am the hand of God, just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pictures at an Execution | 3/28/1994 | See Source »

...Dartmouth graduate, captured a silver medal by executing a Daffy Twister jump, while winner Stine Lise Hattestad of Norway performed a Cossack -- an aerial ballet split on skis, as did the men's mogul winner, Canadian Jean-Luc Brassard. Each race was introduced by a recorded rooster's loud "cock-a-doodle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SKIING: Schuuuusss! | 2/28/1994 | See Source »

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