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...jumbled fights, Kill Bill plays like a nonstop compilation of, say, Jackie Chan's best fights (pow! wow! ow!) or NFL players' most gruesome injuries (Joe Theisman! Frank Gifford! Darryl Stingley!). Yet this is no mere homicidal homage. Tarantino may make a fool of himself on Jay Leno's couch, but he is a stylist of ferocious skill and audacity. So Kill Bill both re-creates the old films--which, after all, represent some of the purest, most cinematic ingenuity ever--and expands them into a daring new dimension...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: And Now...Pulp Friction | 10/20/2003 | See Source »

Melvin, leg up on the couch, knee as an armrest, echoes these sentiments. “Omar Optimism and Pistol Pete Pessimism,” is how he describes his state of mind. “Lots of ups and downs. Like last Wednesday, we thought it was going to be 45 people...

Author: By Jason D. Park, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Getting The Party Started | 10/9/2003 | See Source »

...watching movies. My day started at 11 in the morning and ended at 3 at night and I did a ton of work. As a professor, I have a family and we’re very close, but I do stupid dad things like fall asleep on the couch at 10 o’clock, while reading a book that I’m teaching the next...

Author: By Scoop A. Wasserstein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Connor Brings New Life to VES Film Studies | 10/3/2003 | See Source »

This past Saturday, at a few minutes to seven, a dozen or so first-years arranged themselves on and around the couch and desk chairs in M-54, settling in and preparing to enjoy a post-dinner, pre-Saturday-night-bash musical interlude...

Author: By A.w. Soderberg, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Stuck in the Middle With You | 10/2/2003 | See Source »

...hardest part about starting a new exercise routine is just that: starting. But two new studies in the Journal of the American Medical Association should help get you off the couch. In the first, researchers put 184 sedentary, overweight women on diets of 1,200 to 1,500 calories a day and exercise plans of varying intensity that ranged in duration from 30 to 60 minutes a day. The scientists expected that more exercise would yield greater benefits, and it did. But to their surprise, the difference was only marginal. Even 30 minutes a day of moderate exercise, such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: Exercise: What A Little Can Do | 9/22/2003 | See Source »

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