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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...bought a loaf of French bread and left half of it out on the counter until it had hardened to a level where any reasonable person would throw it away. Naturally, I swooped in to keep good food from being wasted, warmed it in the oven, and proceeded to devour it with poverty’s best companion, peanut butter. This tasteless, crumbly bonus meal gave me such a sense of satisfaction that the bread’s original owner became concerned...

Author: By Allison A. Frost | Title: Hunger Pangs | 6/28/2007 | See Source »

...dentists and kindergarten teachers who forgot their inhibitions and became “Shred Kennedys” or “Twisted Sisters” once inside a house of air.I ultimately settled on “Black Widow,” a handle I hoped would help devour my competition whole. Music and moniker in place, I honed my air skills until the night of competition arrived.“It’s a very challenging and frightening thing to get up in front of a large throng of fans with absolutely nothing except your will and your...

Author: By Nayeli E. Rodriguez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: AIR TO THE THRONE | 4/20/2007 | See Source »

...after Anna Nicole’s death, I was bombarded with her story by every major news network and I, too, began to care about the buoyant blonde from Texas. All forms of media rushed to fill me in on the trailer-trash tragedy and I was able to devour the details through television, Internet, and magazine at my leisure. The book world was quick to follow—within the next two months, there will be a reissue of her 1996 biography “Great Big Beautiful Doll” in trade paperback and a release...

Author: By Madeline K.B. Ross, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Trashy Celeb Lit Abounds | 2/22/2007 | See Source »

...Christmas. But this isn’t one for the young ’uns; in this take on holiday lore, Santa, according to the Orphans’ website is “a man who, after hundreds of years of back breaking public service, has been driven to devour more than just a plate of stale cookies!” Check it out at the Machine Theater (normally a gay nightclub...

Author: By Stephen M. Fee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Get Out! | 12/13/2006 | See Source »

...have to eat or die," one deserter tells them - the kids are to be killed, cooked and eaten. That fate befalls Mischa (who, at two, is oddly thought to have more meat on her than her eight-year-old brother). Hannibal must watch as the brutes boil and devour her; he faints away, and when he comes to he does not speak for five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Becoming Hannibal Lecter | 12/11/2006 | See Source »

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