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...community of imbibers. A styrofoam cup from Dunkin’ Donuts screams proletariat, whereas a paper one from Starbucks announces to the world that you value the finer things in life—in this case, single origin, shade-grown coffee beans. Coffee, for you, is more than a crude caffeine boost...

Author: By Will E. Johnston | Title: Selling Values by the Cup | 3/7/2007 | See Source »

...Time” (see TV Land). “If I could even come close [to Lear] I would be unbelievably proud,” says MacFarlane. According to MacFarlane, today’s sitcoms are off-balance: either too crude or too boring. So often, he says, you “see something that’s so crass that there’s no sweetness, no warmness.” In “The Winner,” he aspires to create something different. “In all of the scripts that Ricki has written, there?...

Author: By Jeremy R. Steinemann, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: New MacFarlane Show Debuts | 3/1/2007 | See Source »

...people hate Robert Crumb for his outlandish depictions of women and blacks. But just as Crumb's art comes from daring to confront his own prejudices, it takes guts to put your cartoon's next Crumb's, and Kominsky Crumb's artwork has a brutish appeal in her flat, crude style. It suits her content in its bluntness and in its literal "colorfulness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All You Need Is... | 2/21/2007 | See Source »

...down in the time it takes Clive Owen to figure out that he’s dirty-talking a stranger (Roberts). Then take a shot because she falls for him anyway. 5. Drink every time Owen uses the word “fuck” or makes otherwise crude sexual references in the big blow-up scene with Roberts. Know your limit: this is a lot of drinking. 6. Take a breather while Portman and Law are back together—it’s not that great a scene, and there are better things to come. (Don?...

Author: By Jillian J. Goodman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SCREENSHOTS: 'Closer' | 2/15/2007 | See Source »

Today opium cultivation in Afghanistan is a growth industry. What crude oil is to the Middle East, poppies are to Afghanistan. A senior Afghan official estimates that 30% of the country's farmers now grow poppies, while the U.N. estimates that the area under cultivation increased 59% in the past year. Experts suggest that the drug situation in Afghanistan is moving from one that was manageable to one that is verging on being out of control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Warlord or Druglord? | 2/8/2007 | See Source »

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