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...Polito as the comical entrepreneur. Thornton, on the other hand, is so dry that he makes Clint Eastwood looks like Richard Simmons, and McDormand is positively wasted as a dull pawn of Ed’s and the Coens’ plottings. Gandolfini, never better than when flaunting a corker of a malicious smile, lingers securely in the middle of the scale. Tony Shalhoub makes the film’s best showing as an improbably shrewd big-city lawyer with the terrific name of Freddy Riedenschneider. Shalhoub’s smart refusal to push the role over the top makes...

Author: By Benjamin J. Soskin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Billy Bob: The Demon Barber of Main Street | 11/2/2001 | See Source »

...Corker Q. Picker ’02-03 intern at the Washington Institute of Sticking a Rod Up Your Ass this summer or what...

Author: By FM Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gossip Guy! | 10/4/2001 | See Source »

...managed-care companies renewed their contracts for 1996, but their support for TennCare is tenuous at best. The gao report suggests that if their concerns are not addressed, they "could withdraw in large numbers." Robert Corker, the Tennessee commissioner of finance, insists that the state is still working on making TennCare more responsive to providers. But if federal money is cut next year, the state may be faced with the stark choice of slashing rates still further or dropping coverage for thousands of residents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A TALE OF TWO STATES | 12/18/1995 | See Source »

Sandwiched in between the two Columbia goals was a corker from Kohler himself, set up by a nice backheel by fellow sophomore T.J. Carella. Steve McAnulty had no chance in the Lions' goal, and at least momentarily, the game was knotted...

Author: By Darren Kilfara, | Title: Men's Soccer Beaten By Lions | 9/27/1994 | See Source »

...curtain is down on the summer's Iran-contra drama, and Ronald Reagan is getting ready for his final 17-month run in Washington, which could be a corker. In the Oval Office last week for an interview with TIME, he looked healthier and more vigorous than recent press accounts have portrayed him. Yet he has been burned and battered by events and people, and his caution was like armor -- a shield that every modern President adopts eventually, no matter what vows he makes about open communion to the end. "There's always a target painted on the Chief Executive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Never Give Up: Reagan is apologetic, but still defiant | 8/24/1987 | See Source »

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