Word: nosed
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...funny essays on junk cinema, Michael J. Nelson, star of dear old Mystery Science Theater 3000, pokes at dead things with a nice Midwestern disdain. Among his targets: Patch Adams (about a doctor whose mission is to "put on a clown nose and frighten children") and actor Jason Lee ("He sucks out loud. He sucks on toast. He forces me to use the word sucks"). In the land of suckitude, Mike Nelson is king...
...Cause athlete's nose b Act as an effective herbicide to eradicate cocaine c Produce chocolate mushrooms d Explain Robert Downey Jr.'s decline...
...some regions; capacity is lagging demand, threatening customers across the nation with brownouts and blackouts this summer. "The cookie jar is open, and everyone wants to get what they can," Hawkins says. "They've got it, we need it, and we're going to pay through the nose...
...hoping, perhaps, to add some power to their slapshots. On July 5, from the stands of the Burbank Ice Arena, in Reading, Mass., Thomas Junta watched his 10-year-old son shoot the puck. The kid wasn't faring well. Though contact was forbidden, an elbow nearly smashed his nose. With play getting rougher, Junta, 42, a truck driver, called down to the only adult on the ice, Michael Costin, demanding that he intervene. Costin, whose three boys were playing too, reportedly replied, "That's what hockey's all about," and he and Junta traded insults. When Costin left...
...part, may be that kids' leagues have become tinderboxes for parental rage. Among recent incidents: last month, at a baseball game in Hollywood, Fla., a parent-coach allegedly punched an umpire and faces battery charges. In March a Staten Island, N.Y., dad was indicted for allegedly breaking the nose of his son's coach with a hockey stick. "We've seen a definite increase in violence," says Bob Still of the National Association of Sports Officials in Racine, Wis. "We hear of two or three cases a week; most aren't reported...