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...UMPS ARE BIASED. Pitchers carp about an elf-size strike zone and umpires who call close pitches in the batters' favor. "Borderline pitches make the difference," says White Sox starter Alex Fernandez, "and the umps don't give us those calls. They don't make guys swing the bat." Instead, hitters can wait for that fat one. Speaking of which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going, Going, Not Quite Gone | 6/13/1994 | See Source »

...same time, French companies that did big business with Baghdad want to resume a lucrative connection. State-owned oil giants Elf Aquitaine and Total were the first Western firms to make contact with Baghdad after the war. Iraqi authorities proposed to give the two French companies a rich production monopoly developing the Majnoun Islands and Nahr Umar oilfields, which could produce 1 million bbl. a day. In exchange, the Iraqis wanted the French to lobby for lifting U.N. sanctions. Since then, according to the weekly Canard Enchaine, representatives of the two companies have made more than 40 trips to Baghdad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Longer Fenced In | 5/23/1994 | See Source »

...trailer is not "just passing through." It breaks down in Endora, and from it emerges Becky (Juliette Lewis). Although boyish and elf-like with her close-cropped hair, Becky resembles the Momma we see in former "beauty queen" pictures. She captivates Gilbert and subdues Arnie with her deep, slow way of speaking, her simplicity and her ethereal charm. Becky's influence is so profound that she brings Gilbert to life; by the end of the film, Momma remarks to her son, "you shimmer and you glow...

Author: By Katherine C. Raff, | Title: The Wrath of Grape | 1/21/1994 | See Source »

...wealth of religious expression on campus makes that decision open to question. However, the real problem is the characterization of the Christmas tree as "secular." The tree that is in the dining hall of Winthrop House is not a "holiday tree" or a "winter tree" or even a "secret elf tree." It is a Christmas tree, plain and simple. The particular image that the tree inspires for non-Christians is not a secular, American one--but a picture of the Christmas holiday that is most emphatically not resonant to a range of students on campus. Many students at Harvard--Jewish...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winthrop Behavior Was Contradictory | 12/17/1993 | See Source »

...Brown..." Fellas I'm ready to get up and do my thang...I wanna get into it, man, you know, like a sex machine man. Moving, doing it, you know...can I count it off?" and BREAK into Sly & The Family Stone coming and Thanking You Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin and BREAK hangin with th'Parlifunkadelicacy thick groove hittin ya in your backside gang, doin it to ya in yer eardrum in 3D heavy thick and sweaty (no more meaty beaty big and bouncy) "I wanna know if it's good to you baby when you do what...

Author: By Seth Mnookin, | Title: Make It Funky | 12/9/1993 | See Source »

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