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...specialized fare, Wes Anderson's stop-motion-animation delight Fantastic Mr. Fox, with George Clooney contributing his voice to the Roald Dahl children's classic, purloined a so-so $7 million in its first weekend of wide release; it earned about the same per-screen average as the much feebler animated feature Planet 51. The Road, with Viggo Mortensen enduring many a hardship in the film version of Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic novel, took in a sturdy $1.5 million at 111 theaters, to finish a mere $10,000 behind Clooney's 10th-place The Men Who Stare at Goats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Box Office: New Moon Takes a Hit on The Blind Side | 11/29/2009 | See Source »

...March 18, 1990, two men dressed as Boston police officers talked their way into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, handcuffed and bound with duct tape two feeble guards, disarmed the even feebler alarm system and spent the next 81 minutes looting the place. They left with a Vermeer, three works by Rembrandt, five by Degas--altogether, pieces valued at $300 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GREAT ART CAPER | 11/17/1997 | See Source »

...army was not yet won over although its loyalty to Mossadeq was feebler than Roosevelt and the generals had dared to hope. For when Zahedi arrived in a tank at Parliament Square a few tense moments passed and then the troops defending Foreign Minister Fatemi threw their caps in the air and declared for the Shah. By mid-afternoon Tehran was under the control of General Zahedi...

Author: By Trevor Barnes, | Title: The CIA in Iran | 2/9/1979 | See Source »

...such oil-rich nations as Saudi Arabia and Kuwait supporting the region's moderates, Israel is no longer facing a solid wall of active Arab belligerency. The greatest losers in the situation, again, are the Palestinian guerrillas, whose hope of leading the way to a restored homeland seems feebler with every passing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Israel Secretly Joins the War in Lebanon | 9/13/1976 | See Source »

...with all that suggests of simplification and even of changing the facts." In Memoirs of Hope, written between De Gaulle's abdication in 1969 and his death 18 months later, the simplification and the changing of facts persist, but the blasts from Roland's horn have grown feebler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Roland's Last Blast | 2/14/1972 | See Source »

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