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...Bottle-green eyes smolder malevolently, and thin lips curl in a perpetual pout. 'I was born surly,' says Roger Eugene Maris, 'and I'm going to stay that way. Everything in life is tough.' But last week, as he has all season, Yankee Outfielder Maris knew just where to direct his sullen anger: at a baseball ... Maris sent a whistling drive soaring high into the rightfield seats. It was his 59th homer in 154 games; he had come within one heart-stopping wallop of tying baseball's most dramatic and cherished record: the 60 home runs hit by George Herman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 6/19/2006 | See Source »

...went subtle, quietly tweaking canonical story lines to roil Supe's placid emotional waters. When the movie opens, Big Blue has been gone for five years, and he gets back to find that Lois Lane has a new guy (!) and a kid (!!). Now, wouldn't that ruffle your spit curl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Run For Your Lives! The Blockbusters Are Coming! | 4/23/2006 | See Source »

...doubt through some combination of starvation and cosmetic surgery. Her lost pounds hadn’t completely disappeared, though; whatever extra pounds she’d shed from her hips had ended up in her bra. Jennifer’s hair, which I remembered as dishwater brown and riotously curl, had been bleached Clairol 252: Never Seen in Nature Blonde. It was also so straight it looked washed, pressed and starched...

Author: By David Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Examples of Similar Passages Between Viswanathan's Book and McCafferty's Two Novels | 4/23/2006 | See Source »

...hard to know at this stage, it is clear that many were wounded. Cell phones were jammed throughout the city to cut off communications. A long spell of rain in the afternoon helped the authorities by stopping the protests for a while, although large plumes of smoke continued to curl up into the Kathmandu skyline as protestors kept their fires burning. Then the rain ended, and the protestors came out again. This time the police seemed to have lost their patience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: More Turmoil in Nepal | 4/22/2006 | See Source »

...imagine, each crunch, curl, and squat is closely monitored, and therefore cutting corners when you start to feel the burn is no longer an option...

Author: By Frank Herrmann, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: BALLPARK FRANK: Surprise! Starting Pitchers Aren’t Sloths | 4/18/2006 | See Source »

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