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...time for the final, fastest dance chorus. Lightning and a thunderclap cue a quick change in the emotional weather. Ginger hears this, but she's not frightened, as she was a few minutes ago; now she's jizzed. The horn section starts bleating like impatient klaxons, modulates seven times, up the whole scale, as the dancers do slide-taps, facing each other, too close for comfort. Something's got to give, and it's the music. The trumpet blasts a kind of sexual cavalry call, to which the two respond with a furious stomp; they've got firecracker feet. Fred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: A Stellar Astaire | 6/22/2002 | See Source »

...verdict, a courtroom melee breaks out. As reality TV, it's riveting, addictive and well told. As a civics lesson, it's manipulative and tendentious. We have access only to the D.A.s, so the presumption of innocence, unpopular with crime-show viewers anyway, gets 86ed, and every emotional cue prods us to root for "guilty"--even the show's title. You don't get ratings making Accusation & Verdict...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Cross Courts | 6/17/2002 | See Source »

...long-awaited EPC proposal made a secretive and short-lived appearance at a closed-door CUE meeting on April...

Author: By Jessica E. Vascellaro, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Faculty Tries To Combat Grade Inflation | 6/6/2002 | See Source »

...after heated debate within the CUE, the proposal met even more resistance in the Faculty Council, where nearly all its specific proposals were discarded...

Author: By Jessica E. Vascellaro, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Faculty Tries To Combat Grade Inflation | 6/6/2002 | See Source »

...continuing threat of terror strikes. An acceleration of diplomatic activity in pursuit of peace - as has been seen over the past week, with U.S. envoys in the region and President Bush's plans to meet the leaders of Egypt and Israel in the coming days - typically serves as a cue for radical elements to launch new outrages in the hope of sabotaging any progress towards a truce. But the sophistication of the attack is a worrying sign for Israel, suggesting Palestinian terror groups may be raising the stakes by varying their tactics (until now, attacks on buses have been more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: D?j? Vu in Ramallah | 6/6/2002 | See Source »

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