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...Last night, a few hours after learning of George's death, I flipped idly through TV channels. And there was George, in his final movie role, as Ryan Philippe's character 60 years later in Clint Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers. Gasping for air, a tube up his nose, a good man making needless apologies to a loving son, George was doing what many an actor finds himself doing: rehearsing his own death. It was just pretend - his usual consummate acting job. Dying on film, he lived again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who's a Friend of George Grizzard? | 10/5/2007 | See Source »

...Tomfoolery/ amateur photography) in class.” Effectiveness Factor: 5-10 Creepster Factor: A lot, but you sealed your fate long ago. 4) The Crap on Your Face Knife in the Back A non-verbal attack. As the TF speaks, subtly make eye contact and repeatedly touch your nose or teeth, thereby suggesting that the tool sitting across from you has some unpleasant appendage in his nose/teeth. Not only will this distract him for the rest of section, but the semblance of intimacy will leave him vulnerable for future attacks. Effectiveness Factor: 9 Judas Factor: internal strife, eventual forgiveness...

Author: By Aria S.K. Laskin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: You WIll Be Crushed: FM's Guide to Throwin' 'Bows in Class | 10/3/2007 | See Source »

...rush hour in São Paulo, and I am riding pillion through the frenetic streets of downtown. Up ahead are two motorbike medics on their way to an emergency call. From the way they handle their bikes I can tell they are used to weaving through the nose-to-tail traffic. I, on the other hand, feel as if I am in a deadly video game. This is São Paulo, the biggest metropolis in South America and one of the most chaotic cities on earth. Everywhere we turn, obstacles rush at us. As we approach the city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard: Brazil | 9/27/2007 | See Source »

...knew I didn't look like an ingenue--my nose was too long, I had crooked teeth," comedic singer and character actress Alice Ghostley, below, said of her prospects for success in show biz. "But I also knew I'd find a way." The Tony winner appeared in such films as To Kill a Mockingbird and The Graduate but was best known as the befuddled housekeeper-witch Esmerelda on TV's Bewitched. Ghostley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Oct. 8, 2007 | 9/27/2007 | See Source »

...been - not where it's going - and only when the ramp used by Marines to get on and off the aircraft is lowered. That doesn't satisfy Jones. "I just fundamentally believe than an assault aircraft that goes into hot landing zones should have a nose-mounted gun," Jones told TIME. "I go back to my roots a little bit," the Vietnam veteran says. "I just like those kinds of airplanes to have the biggest and best gun we can get, and that to me was a requirement." He doesn't think much of the V-22's current weapon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: V-22 Osprey: A Flying Shame | 9/26/2007 | See Source »

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