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...wouldn’t be a Wu release if it didn’t—but it manages to quite successfully navigate the fine line between aggressive and elegant. This culminates in a soulful, uplifting and rather smooth production that still manages to pack a brutal, knuckle-duster-wearing punch...

Author: By Colm Dubhrosa, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Method Man, Ghostface Killah, & Raekwon | 4/6/2010 | See Source »

...seven weeks before Gates was finally confirmed, were even more bruising than those in 1987. They gave him perspective, Gates said, "so you don't get too pumped up about things and too down about things. One of my favorite lines is, Today a peacock, tomorrow a feather duster." (See TIME's photogallery, "Fun with Photoshop: Obama's Other Awards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Is Robert Gates Really Fighting For? | 2/3/2010 | See Source »

...peacock, the next day a feather duster.' PAT QUINN, Illinois governor, on his turn in the spotlight after Illinois legislators voted to oust predecessor Rod Blagojevich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

...nation's first African-American Attorney General, Holder, 58, brings a unique perspective to the job. In the 1970s, New Jersey police pulled over his Plymouth Duster to search for weapons. The car contained nothing more than Holder, then a dean's-list undergraduate at Columbia University, and a group of black friends. It impressed on Holder the dangers of using the law as a blunt instrument, a lesson he applied years later in overseeing a racial-profiling settlement with the New Jersey state police. After Columbia Law School, he passed up high-paying jobs for a chance to prosecute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Prosecutor | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

...Donat, suave fugitive of The 39 Steps, double-talking his way out of a political rally and into the clutches of the man with the missing fingertip. Or Cary Grant doing anything in almost any Hitchcock caper: wooing Grace Kelly in To Catch a Thief, dodging a malefic crop duster in North by Northwest. Grant also adorned the genre's apogee, Stanley Donen's Charade, in which the star has five identities and a protective lust for Audrey Hepburn. Neat plotting, chic dialogue, a funny-grotesque supporting cast and enough frissons to send an audience out spooked and happy. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MURDER IN THE WORST DEGREE LEGAL EAGLES Directed by Ivan Reitman Screenplay by Jim Cash and Jack Epps Jr. | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

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