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...first real comedy in three years, Carrey is all manic ingenuity. His eyebrows tango; he sports dry mouth and a milk mustache; he executes a quintuple spit take. It's not that he'll do anything to get a laugh. It's that he has the timing and gall to earn it--as in his metamorphosis from Charlie to Hank in one shot and with no special effects. You don't need ILM when you have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Split Decision | 6/26/2000 | See Source »

...they're also really, really mad that cast members had the unmitigated gall to catch fish (yes, fish!) in the waters surrounding their island prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Got a Bone to Pick With 'Survivor'? Take a Number | 6/16/2000 | See Source »

Carswell's further discussion of the O.A. is quite to the point--he himself realizes its superiority to any E., however A. His illustration includes one of the key "Wake Up the Grader" phrases--"It is absurd." What force! What gall! What fun! "Ridiculous," "hopeless," "nonsense," on the one hand; "doubtless," "obvious," "unquestionable," on the other, will have the same effect. A hint of nostalgic, antiacademic languor at this stage as well may match the grader's own mood: "It seems more than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists--at times, indeed, approaching the ludicrous...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: BEATING THE SYSTEM | 5/17/2000 | See Source »

...Rowings, 60, a retired high school Latin teacher. In 1995 Rowings began teaching part time at a reduced salary. "I tried to make ends meet," she says, "and I did pretty well for a couple of years, but then it all went downhill." She had four operations, including gall bladder surgery and orthoscopic procedures on both shoulders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Money & Politics: Who Gets Hurt?: Soaked By Congress | 5/15/2000 | See Source »

Moneybags Harvard just raised billions of dollars, aside from their billions in the bank and what they squeeze out of us every year. They also just decided to lend out $20 million to save face from a shady real estate deal. Now they have the gall to claim that they don't have enough for student groups? That's an abomination. This is lunch money to the University. If Harvard is not serving its students well in academics as well as in extracurriculars, it is not doing its job. Our under-funded student groups should get more money and more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 11/16/1999 | See Source »

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