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...next day the filmmakers' guerrilla-marketing tactics proved more successful: the audience that turned up to watch the movie nearly filled the dank screening room at No Dance. After a few promising minutes, though, SMTA!!! became a mess of dull, endless, off-color jokes. By the movie's climax, about a third of the audience had left, and those remaining (family? friends? people who were sexually probed by aliens?) weren't laughing. In the end, Crowley didn't win the award for best picture or best director. But the aliens did get the nod for "Best Guerrilla Marketing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Everyone's A Star.Com | 3/27/2000 | See Source »

...head of the Roman Catholic Church, John Paul has one foot in the dimension of history (where mess, error, violence, fanaticism and stupidity flourish merrily) and the other in the dimension of eternity (where, he must insist, the holiness and infallibility of the church as the mystical body of Christ remain intact). It is awkward: How does infallibility own up to its fallibilities and yet remain infallible? The Pope's solution: by being vague about the actual sins and by attributing them, in any case, to men and women who are Catholics and not to the Catholic Church itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is It Enough to Be Sorry? | 3/27/2000 | See Source »

...built his primary campaign on the slogan "I'm a fighter, I want to fight for you," and he's never been one to turn the other cheek to political mudslinging. The fight's already on: Wednesday, Gore contrasted the booming economy under the Clinton-Gore administration to the "mess" of the Bush-Quayle recession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Kinder, Gentler Presidential Race? Don't Bet on It | 3/23/2000 | See Source »

...mess. Personally, I don't understand it, and the people who work with me say it's a pain in the neck...People aren't happy...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: The Party Lines Vs. From the Ranks | 3/21/2000 | See Source »

...mail at ihateclowns.com, participate in chats about the evils of clowns, play an animated punch-a-clown game, review "34 reasons why you should hate clowns" (Reason #14: "A clown ate the dog that ate my homework") and even compose anti-clown poetry, such as this haiku: "Clowns mess up our kids / And anger all their parents / Clowns are evil things...

Author: By Stephen E. Sachs, | Title: Pat Buchanan Hates Clowns? | 3/16/2000 | See Source »

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