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...thriller keep-you-on-the-edge-of-your-seat movie in a long while, and definitely welcomed relief from what could have been a very long summer drought. There has to be something to this movie if it can keep someone like me with the attention span of a gnat engaged from start to finish...

Author: By Ji IL Kwon, | Title: Chasing Away Summer Movie Blues | 8/13/1993 | See Source »

...took a late goal by Liz Berkery, then a precocious freshman coming off the bench, and it took (in Kleinfelder's words) "the gnat-fly." That was Hansen, coming off the bench when Harvard was behind Maryland, 4-0, in the first half. Using her aggressive quickness, she, along with Gaffney paralyzed the Terrapin at tack...

Author: By Andrew J. Arends, | Title: Lots of Memories for Five Seniors | 5/15/1992 | See Source »

...event of the imagination? During the '60s, that hallucinatory decade, the writer Carlos Castaneda sought illumination with his teacher Don Juan through the use of peyote, Jimson-weed and mushroom dust. Drug miracles: Castaneda found himself having conversations with a bilingual coyote and looking at a 100-ft.-tall gnat with spiky, tufted hair and drooling jaws...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How To Believe in Miracles | 12/30/1991 | See Source »

...Patricia Schroeder (D-Colo.) said last year that debating flag burning laws is like "chasing a gnat around the light bulb as the planet is burning down." If a few key legislators have their way, Congress this summer is going to try chasing that gnat all over again--and this time, it may actually catch...

Author: By Jonathan S. Cohn, | Title: A (Flag) Burning Issue | 5/25/1990 | See Source »

...CONGRESS, ready to sieze the gnat, has begun to gear up for another round of flag burning debate. Last week, Sen. Joseph Biden (D-Del.), chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, vowed to introduce a constitutional amendment to protect the flag if the Court overturns the 1989 flag...

Author: By Jonathan S. Cohn, | Title: A (Flag) Burning Issue | 5/25/1990 | See Source »

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