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...It’s too expensive and it’s just more trouble than it’s worth,” says Amanda M. Mulfinger ’02, Cabot House committee co-chair. “Stein Club is a low-key event...

Author: By Anne K. Kofol, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Stein Club Moves Beyond Just Beer | 11/5/2001 | See Source »

...austere black-and-white pulp homage set in the late forties. The Coens’ incomparable gift for dialogue, still with them in O Brother, has largely deserted them here. This talent, long used to capture the bizarre natterings of hicks, drifters and executives, is mostly dismissed in the low-key The Man Who Wasn’t There as a vestigial skill...

Author: By Benjamin J. Soskin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Billy Bob: The Demon Barber of Main Street | 11/2/2001 | See Source »

...media may soon get over its four-week impatience, and settle in for a winter of low-key combat. President Bush and his cabinet members and generals have been at pains to remind us, all along, that this is a new type of war against a non-state actor, in which the definitions, strategies and yardsticks of all previous conflicts no longer apply. Still, if that puts U.S. ground troops into a long-term deployment in Afghanistan, expect to hear a lot more discussion of the Q-word on the Sunday talk shows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Halloween Word for the Pundits: Quagmire | 10/31/2001 | See Source »

Tommy Thompson has his own war room now--though the low-key Health Secretary prefers to think of it as a mere operations center. Whatever it's called, it's a conference room across from his office humming with computers, printers, fax machines and televisions and tended by a team of round-the-clock staff members. It has the look of a place where a war is being waged--just not necessarily one that's being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Dose of Reality for The Health Watchdogs | 10/29/2001 | See Source »

...trio also becomes a pleasantly low-key menage a trois, because, as Kate puts it, the two guys add up to one pretty sexy--maybe amusing is a better word--dude. Written by Harley Peyton, Bandits establishes itself early on as an ambling, slightly shaggy but very agreeable movie, making time for digressive observations and blissful wrangles with a rich supporting cast of American weirdos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Crime Capers | 10/22/2001 | See Source »

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