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...gaze mistily into the camera and yearn for his one big shot. Check. Attractive astronauts go to Mars, but meet a nasty disaster and all end up dead, except for one. Double Check. (The disaster is a particularly nasty and vicious . . . wait for it . . . sandstorm). Backup team, spouting macho lines and passionate debate, forms rescue squad to save one survivor. Check. On the way to save him, rescue team meets one disaster after another and nearly doesn't make it. Check. But they do make it, and then uncover the secrets of life contained on Mars, thanks to some ingenious...

Author: By James Crawford, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Mission Aborted: A Space Travesty | 3/10/2000 | See Source »

...infinite number of monkeys typing on an infinite number of typewriters for an infinite amount of time will eventually write all the works of William Shakespeare. With _M2M_? One monkey, one hour. What the writing team deems a script to be a half-baked plot idea garnished with stock macho statements and head-slapping obvious observations. By the end of the first half hour, it's painful to the point of being literally laughable...

Author: By James Crawford, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Mission Aborted: A Space Travesty | 3/10/2000 | See Source »

...resembles v. intellectual tome, in manner of Henry not Helen Fielding, once the cover is taken off. Also, cover removal allows male reviewer to preserve semblance of being macho). Number of times faux-Bridget style intro must have been used in other publications by the time this review is published: probably 500 (ugh). Alcohol units consumed while pondering previous fact...

Author: By Daryl Sng, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Keeping up with the Jones | 3/3/2000 | See Source »

...house believes in luck just as much as the players do, and Ray seems intent on breaking the players' winning streak. There's no need, however. As soon as I begin watching the action, people begin losing again. The playwright knows when to walk away, but Hemingway stays in. Macho till the very...

Author: By Robert J. Coolbrith, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Reservation for One: One man, one hundred dollars and 15 hours at Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun | 3/2/2000 | See Source »

That was easier said than done. In the macho culture of Sicily and Calabria, just across the straits, there was a tradition of hunting migrating raptors. So when this earnest young woman began badgering police, forest rangers and local authorities to do something about the illegal killing, she was not taken seriously. But she organized camps of young people who gathered each spring to observe the migrations and inform police when they saw poachers at work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANNA GIORDANO: Making the Skies Safer | 2/28/2000 | See Source »

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