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...comic for his ability to pick out and pick on people for their weaknesses. Thereafter, things turn ugly for the poor guy: in a sequence owing a lot to Steve Martin's nose-joke routine in a bar in "Roxanne," Buddy proceeds to roast the comic to a crisp. Where Klump had received abuse -- "Now we know what's eating Gilbert Grape!"--Buddy dishes it out, worse than the comic himself could do. (But Chapelle captures the strutting, merciless vulgarity and one-up-manship of many such comics perfectly, only breaking character in that he is actually occasionally funny...
...Clear View: Sony's high-resolution Trinitron monitor delivers the same crisp pictures that Sony owners have come to expect from their...
...catching bend is the product of extraordinary speed and gristle. Bubka's virtue, or one of them, anyway, is that he makes the transformation from visceral thunk at the jump's base to airy finesse at its apogee look effortless. At the last second, he offers the bar a crisp, flapping salute with his palms and fingertips. "It's an unbelievable feeling," says Bubka. And from the spectator's vantage, it's an unbelievable sight...
...clear, crisp night in March, students shouted through megaphones to protest what they saw as the anti-immigration policies of Sen. Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.) when he came to speak at the Institute of Politics...
...Russian Air Force, it was the stuff of instant legend. The elusive rebel in crisp combat fatigues drives into an open field under a starry Chechen sky to speak on his satellite phone. As he talks, an unseen Russian plane far above is hunting him. It locks in on his satellite signal, launches its missiles and blasts the field. Jokhar Dudayev, the flamboyant and impassioned leader of Chechnya's rebellion against Russia, is dead...