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...flaccid, just to be clear, and so it wasn’t real. We had to keep refreshing the pie chunks...At the end of the day, it was everywhere,” he said. “It was in crevices I didn’t even know existed...

Author: By Lingbo Li, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sleepless Biggs Visits Kirkland | 10/9/2007 | See Source »

...Eastern Promises (a flaccid title for such a taut film) has some sensational set pieces: a barber-shop murder in the first few minutes, and a long, brutal fight in a bathhouse between Mortensen and two thugs; they're armed, he's naked. But at heart it's a two-family drama, one being Anna's sensible English aunt (Sinead Cusack) and crabby Russian uncle (Jerzy Skolimowski), the other Semyon and his son Kirill (Vincent Cassel). Kirill is like a mutant Corleone: he has Sonny's hair-trigger impulses and Fredo's drug-addled weak streak, stemming from a need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Two Weird Canadian Geniuses at Toronto | 9/10/2007 | See Source »

...Whole Foods intends to eventually open as many as 40 stores throughout Britain. Although organic products currently account for only 1.6 percent of Britain's $167 billion food trade, it is the market's fastest-growing sector. While many Brits might associate the organic label with misshapen potatoes and flaccid carrots on offer at a local farmers' market, Whole Foods is trying to expand the market by offering organic food that's big and perfect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Whole Foods Hits the Land of Mushy Peas | 6/14/2007 | See Source »

Unfortunately, the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club’s (HRDC) presentation of the former Broadway sensation fell short of its potential, leaving this reviewer emotionally—and physically—flaccid...

Author: By Joshua J. Kearney, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ARTSMONDAY: ‘Cabaret’ Turns in Mediocre Showing | 4/22/2007 | See Source »

...should admit that the problem does not lie wholly with our TFs so much as with the sheer stupidity that students think they can get away with. I wish I had a dime for every time I saw a TF’s flaccid, feigned smile of approbation, that muttering of “good” or “interesting” every time another student weighs in with a complete non-sequitur...

Author: By David L. Golding | Title: Hanged, Drawn, and Sectioned | 3/19/2007 | See Source »

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