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...endearingly odd couple can carry a feature-length film with easy poise. Newcomers will be charmed by the characters, then drawn into the suspense as a man is transformed into a killer bunny in a scene scarier--and even funnier--than Oliver Reed's hirsute metamorphoses in the old Hammer Studios' horror movie The Curse of the Werewolf. And the kids will giggle with pride as they spot the furtive gags, like the magazine hidden by the town's vicar (Pro Nun Wrestling) or the name of the author of a book on animal wounds (Claude Savagely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Dog And His Man | 10/3/2005 | See Source »

...news that House Majority LeaderTom DeLay had beendreading for months was brought by an aide, who interrupted DeLay's weekly lunch with Dennis Hastert in the House Speaker's office. DeLay absorbed it, and then the man widely called "the Hammer" on Capitol Hill (though rarely to his face) did what he does best: he hit back. "All right," DeLay replied. "Let's go. Let's go fight." Less than three hours later, before a roomful of reporters, DeLay addressed a Texas grand jury's charge that he and two political associates conspired to funnel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Power Outage | 10/3/2005 | See Source »

...nails, you can use a hammer,” he said. “But what happens if you have a hammer in your hands and the nail is changing shape as you approach...

Author: By Noah S. Bloom, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: E.U. Anti-Terror Official Speaks | 9/29/2005 | See Source »

...curators of thisseven-disc set neglect whole chunks of rap and dance music and package the compilation in a cover featuring vacuum-packed coffee beans. They may be going for high camp, but the 130 songs, arranged chronologically--starting with M.C. Hammer's sample-based U Can't Touch This and ending with Moby's sample-based Natural Blues--more or less re-create the bipolar experience of listening to commercial radio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 5 Very Gifted Box Sets | 9/4/2005 | See Source »

...What happens next? For the next three days, the National Assembly will work to hammer out what, exactly, Iraqi federalism will mean. Assuming it's approved by the parliament Thursday night, the draft will then go to the people of Iraq to be ratified in a referendum Oct. 15. Sunnis have already said they will campaign against it, but the Shi'ites and Kurds have said they will go to the Sunni communities to convince them to vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq's Constitution: Where They Stand | 8/23/2005 | See Source »

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