Word: contact
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...Funky Forest - The First Contact is an example of that bizarre, and to me impenetrable, oxymoron: Japanese comedy. Watching this two-and-a-half-hour selection of sketches from a kids? TV show, I felt like a scientist monitoring extraterrestrial signals. What do they mean to the people they?re made for? And is anyone, anywhere, laughing? I think I understand the premise of the sketch about the high-school girl at a tennis lesson who gets a bloodsucker stuck to her arm. It gradually emerges, and we see it?s a small homunculus named Yamada (as in "Ya mada...
...service. Still, I was startled by the rich sound of its single buried speaker when I tried out the Rolling Stones' dynamic "Moonlight Mile." I let the song play and jumped back to check my e-mail, and at that moment as I stared at all my points of contact, with my tunes acting as a soundtrack, the Sidekick 3 vibe...
...doubt, Wade's slashing style benefited from NBA rules changes that require referees to call the game much closer - even slight contact might get you to the foul line. In Game 5, Wade shot 25 foul shots - as much as the entire Dallas team. In Game 6, he shot 21 more. For years, Dallas will be smarting over a foul call against Nowitzki in the waning seconds of game 5 - he barely touched Wade, but the refs awarded Wade the winning free throws. So yes, Wade's stats might be a bit inflated - but getting questionable foul calls was also...
...This bug has gone from 0 to 60, not in five seconds but in about five years," says Elizabeth Bancroft, a medical epidemiologist at the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services. "It spreads by contact, so if it gets into any community that's fairly close-knit, that's all it needs to be passed...
...is 36, single, broad shouldered and thin, like a martini glass. He has made a new life for himself in Spokane, Wash.--where he has been stashed by the FBI's witness-protection program--running a doughnut shop and selling weed and credit-card numbers on the side. His contact in the Spokane Police Department assures him that the mobsters he ratted out back East are all dead or dying and don't care about him anymore. So why is there a contract killer in town looking to put a bullet through his eye? Camden will eventually...