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...officers tell the Marines to be ready to move out at 4 the next morning. The Marines are temporarily diverted by the arrival of care packages from home. Staff Sergeant Chris Bailey, gruff and tattooed, opens a massive parcel of honey buns, potato chips, Winn-Dixie sugar drink and cigarettes. "I miss my mother," he says. He is interested only in cigarettes. Pantano, a former commodities trader and television producer from New York City, receives clippings from the New York Times and cigars "rolled by a Cuban guy on Ninth Avenue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life on the Front Lines | 5/10/2004 | See Source »

Creasy and Pita quickly get over the initial awkwardness of their textbook odd-couple relationship when the lovably gruff guard notices he can help the cherubic, threatened swan’s swimming technique. Washington, meanwhile, channels his forceful yet charismatic Remember The Titans performance, berating the girl until she successfully stops flinching from the sound of the race’s starting shot. Surprisingly, Scott lavishes a substantial chunk of time on the astonishingly cute friendship—a decision which makes the audience actually care when Pita is kidnapped during a shootout with unknown assailants...

Author: By Scoop A. Wasserstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Film Review: Man on Fire | 4/23/2004 | See Source »

...what brings the 24-year-old to the H&M flagship store in Paris on her way home from work one recent evening. Around her, a group of teenage girls trolls for emergency club gear; three Russian tourists buy lingerie; and a shopper misplaces her Louis Vuitton handbag. A gruff female voice breaks through the pop sound track to discourage standing in line for the fitting rooms: "You have 30 days to change your mind and return purchases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside The H&M Fashion Machine | 2/16/2004 | See Source »

...broke its own age-limit rule of 65 to give the job to the 67-year-old Stonecipher, who had been chief of McDonnell Douglas when Boeing bought it in 1997. In his five years as Boeing's No. 2, he established himself as an aggressive cost cutter and gruff negotiator in his dealings with unions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Boeing Got Lost | 12/15/2003 | See Source »

...bait-and-switch in this supersized Alpo can. Anyone who has seen the canine puppet rant and rave on NBC along with Conan O’Brien ’85 knows exactly what the album entails. True to form, it’s a lewd, juvenile hour of gruff-voiced comedic diatribes, almost exclusively on the subject of sexual relations between man’s best friends. Sometimes Triumph sings, sometimes he makes prank calls and sometimes he just shouts at his audience in a dim-lit nightclub. In Come Poop With Me, we get to hear...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Music | 11/21/2003 | See Source »

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