Word: franciscos
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Alex Rodriguez finally admitted that he and fellow Yankee Derek Jeter are no longer best buddies, though they promise to work together on the field. Barry Bonds showed up, and even posed in a goofy T-shirt, along with new San Francisco Giants teammate Barry Zito ("Don't ask me ... ask Barry!" the shirts read, with arrows pointed to one another). Some 200 members of the international press corps surrounded rookie Boston Red Sox pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka - to watch him warm up! ESPN even broke into a college basketball game this week to report that New York Yankees right fielder...
...brains, swagger, originality and a flawless sense of p.r. He taunted police and the press with phone calls, coded messages, swatches of his victims' clothes. Bay Area detectives questioned several suspects, but the killer was never caught. In what may have been his last note to the San Francisco Chronicle, he mused, "I am waiting for a good movie about me. Who will play...
...started incorporating techno-fabrics like nylon and carbon into more traditional weaves, giving them a lighter hand or a three-dimensional quality. They pushed the boundaries, often employing far-out materials like rubber and plastic. More recently, Alexander McQueen has expressed a ghostly romantic vibe with fine spiderweb netting. Francisco Costa has been playing with perforated latex and stretch scuba at Calvin Klein. And at Fendi, Karl Lagerfeld reintroduced the idea of rubber, pleating it around evening columns like a sci-fi mummy...
...simply stupid,” Graysmith says, referring to his lack of prudence when dealing with the Zodiac Killer. But Graysmith was not a police inspector or a crime reporter like the other three men focused on the case; he was a cartoonist for the San Francisco Chronicle who liked going to the library and solving encrypted messages. When the threats became more aggressive, he learned to take, well, minor precautions. “I would open my door with my foot because you know, it gets to you a little bit,” he recounts...
...striking moment though, Fincher’s strategy is to calm viewers with humor and the character’s own confusion, before shocking them with a gruesome death. Gyllenhaal has wonderful on-screen chemistry with co-stars Robert Downey Jr., who plays a crime reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, and Mark Ruffalo, who plays a detective. Their repartee creates a deceptively funny film. The comedy lulls the audience into a false sense of security, one Fincher seems set on destroying. The shock of seeing a stabbing is heightened with the knowledge that you were chuckling at witty dialogue...