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...hamstring injury that suddenly flared up as soon as Oakland starting wailing on him in Game One of the ALDS. Who knows, maybe Roger actually was playing hurt. With Clemens, though, it’s always something—a pulled groin, a sore hamstring or a hangnail. By now, Roger is pretty much the boy who cried wolf. And whether he fakes his injuries or not, whether he asks out of games or not, the reality is, for one reason or another, he always disappears when the game is on the line. Most annoying of all, Roger never pays...
Viewers were aghast. No, not at TV hostess KATHIE LEE GIFFORD's mawkish reports of her son Cody's every hiccup and hangnail. They're used to that. Last week, however, labor activist Charles Kernaghan testified in Congress that the Wal-Mart clothing line bearing Kathie Lee's name is stitched together by children in Honduras who work for 31 cents an hour. As co-host Regis Philbin flinched, Gifford launched into a teary, it's-not-my-fault, TV hissy fit: "You can say I'm ugly, you can say I'm not talented, but when...
...action movies (Batman Returns) have immediate muscle; women's pictures (The Bodyguard) have long legs. As Ephron notes, "Teenage boys are driving the business because they'll go early and go back again. That's why it's easier to get a movie made about a man with a hangnail than a woman with a truly interesting problem...
Last Rights is a wrenching electronic cry of rage and personal disintegration, as tempting and raw as a hangnail. You will flinch. . .but that's the point...
...article in yesterday's Crimson about a Harvard Law Record parody misspelled the name of a law student dubbed by the spoof "George Hangnail." He is George Anhang...