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...them came from India or the Philippines. To account for the funny taste of this drug-laced beverage, Obara told his victims it contained special herbs. There was one victim he coaxed into making a "good luck" toast that required her to down the entire glass in a single gulp. If she didn't drink it all, he warned her, she wouldn't have good luck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lucie Blackman: Death of a Hostess | 5/14/2001 | See Source »

...League's scheduling format, that many games in so short a time can give a manager with a suspect pitching staff plenty of headaches. In a must-win game during the stretch run, there can be nothing more frustrating than having to hand the ball over to your, gulp, fourth-best starter...

Author: By Elijah M. Alper, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lock and Load: Harvard's Rotation Poised to Dominate | 3/21/2001 | See Source »

...troubling circumstances around her. Now that the communicative barrier has been mostly demolished, these queries and quandaries come bursting forth to couple with the cold-fusion energy of most toddlers, transforming peevish monosyllabic terrible-twos into an inquisitive whirling dervishes, ready to drink in the world with one great gulp...

Author: By B.j. Greenleaf, | Title: It's Elementary | 3/20/2001 | See Source »

Outside of this shorts program, the chief delight of the festival is Bill Plympton’s taste-impaired animated feature Mutant Aliens, which delivers what its title promises and more. Its genetically altered space animals stomp, impale, gulp down, and otherwise commit murder in the name of justice for Earl, the story’s embittered astronaut hero. Earl’s chief opponent, the money-minded space official Dr. Frubar, soon learns that an antagonist who relies on the support of ad money and horny secretaries can only advance so far. Plympton’s inventive mind...

Author: By Benjamin J. Soskin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: In the B.U.F.F. | 2/23/2001 | See Source »

...Earlier this fall Cadbury-Schweppes, the British owner of Dr Pepper and Seven-Up, spent $1.45 billion to gulp down juice-and-tea leader Snapple. "The ingredients in [carbonated] soft drinks are essentially the same as they've always been. You can only add a little bit of flavor to them," says Todd Stitzer, Cadbury's chief strategy officer, of the deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New-Age Drink War Starts As Soda Flops | 12/18/2000 | See Source »

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