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...whisked away to UHS, you’ll be held “incommunicado.” That’s what they think: FM is here with 15 ways to reach the outside world if the “man” has got you on lockdown. 1) Flicker the lights in Morse Code with the hope that a steamy Navy Seal is standing near the window and can use his bulging muscles to rescue you from captivity. 2) Tap frantically on any and all pipes in the room in the attempt to get the attention of any neighbors...

Author: By Nicola C. Perlman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 WAYS TO CONTACT THE OUTSIDE WORLD IF HELD INCOMMUNICADO | 1/18/2007 | See Source »

...state courthouses and pitting neighbor against neighbor. The first lawsuit is set to begin in this week in Abilene as 18 residents of Taylor County sue their neighbors and FPL Energy, claiming the wind turbines are a public nuisance that spoil their views, create noise and cast strobelike flicker effects as the sun sets behind the giant propellers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Windmill Turbines: Not at Home on the Range | 12/6/2006 | See Source »

...many phenoms: being courted and misused by the big studios. Having spent $60,000 to make Pi, and $4.5 million on Requiem, he suddenly had hundred of millions dangled in front of him to direct a Batman prequel, or an adaptation of Theodore Roszak's meta-cinematic novel Flicker. Projects collapsed; time marched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Admit It: I Liked The Fountain | 11/22/2006 | See Source »

...This represents a last flicker of hope for Hack. And for the film. Pretty soon producer, publicist, the whole cast, are launching campaigns for other actors and for the movie itself. And director Christopher Guest, who with Eugene Levy co-wrote the heavily improvised script, has launched another of his wee, wry curiously compassionate comedies. It may not be quite as funny as their masterpiece, Best in Show, but it is, I think, superior in energy, characterizations and narrative strength to Waiting for Guffman and A Mighty Wind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Almost Best in Show | 11/17/2006 | See Source »

...about 20 ft. Is the owl not home? Is it using some owl camouflage power on us? Is this even the right tree? In the past hour Franzen, 47, who's a pretty hard-core bird watcher, has already spotted California quail, some towhees, a scrub jay, a flicker and a few acorn woodpeckers. So far no owl, though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Jonathan Franzen Learned To Stop Worrying (Sort Of) | 8/20/2006 | See Source »

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