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...more honest about ourselves and others. In Russia, life is not polite. If we don't like something, we say we don't like it. If we don't agree, we say: 'F___ you.'" Their actual sexuality, it turns out, is unclear - there are reports of the girls having (gasp!) boyfriends. That's merely a detail to a marketer like Shapovalov, who can also sling psychology to defend his interests. "Most teenage girls, if not all of them, have these kind of feelings," he says. "They simply came to the fore in our project." Getting attention for the "project...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Russia With Lust | 2/2/2003 | See Source »

...victory was also the last gasp of a Harvard program about to jump headfirst into rebuilding mode. The next fall, Harvard welcomed an overstocked recruit class. Harvard hasn’t beaten Princeton since...

Author: By Brian E. Fallon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Can Men's Basketball Turn Back the Clock? | 1/31/2003 | See Source »

Thus Gangs--with so many detours in its making, and abraded by Scorsese's well-publicized struggle with Harvey Weinstein of Miramax Films--may be the epic's last gasp. If so, it is a gasp that sings, howls, like a grand tenor at an Irish wake. Set in the gaudy, pestilential Five Points section of lower Manhattan, Gangs begins with an 1846 street fight: Bill the Butcher (Daniel Day-Lewis ) and his Nativists against Priest Vallon (Liam Neeson) and his horde of Hibernians. It ends in 1863 with another rumble--Bill now battling Priest's vengeful son Amsterdam (Leonardo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Holiday Movie Preview: Have A Very Leo Noel | 12/23/2002 | See Source »

With only 40% of U.S. citizens showing up at the polls, the results of this election can hardly be called a mandate [ELECTION 2002, Nov. 18]. We should make Election Day a national holiday and push voter participation to--gasp!--50% or 60%. Only then could the words mandate and triumph be used honestly. MAGGIE DONALDSON Seattle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 9, 2002 | 12/9/2002 | See Source »

...former Cabaret Voltaire member Chris Watson’s work as a BBC nature recording engineer to composer Pierre Henry’s “Variations for a Door and a Sigh,” a 45-minute work made from the creak of a door and a gasp...

Author: By Ryan J. Kuo, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Strange Sound of Music | 12/5/2002 | See Source »

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