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...engineers are painting me this complicated picture, I'm thinking: "If I'm peckish, I'll go to the fridge and throw together a sandwich with whatever is available." But maybe that's dangerous, Old Economy thinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Simplifying (?) Our Lives | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

...setting. What Jeff and his producers call the Outback is a lush, watery place in the rainy season, not the dry, red desert we associate with the word. And survive? The good people of Ogakor and Kucha are getting a whole lot of help. They may be on the peckish side, but as long as they're complaining about mushy rice you know they haven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: These Survivors Would Be Eaten Alive in the Real Outback | 2/15/2001 | See Source »

While in College, Hurley and his friends founda pheasant in the Kirkland courtyard after oneHarvard-Yale game. Feeling a little peckish afterThe Game, they took the bird home to Kirkland G-32and plucked...

Author: By Ariel R. Frank, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Game Keeps Them Coming Back Every Year | 11/20/1998 | See Source »

...Perhaps if dinner in the dining halls went on a little later, there wouldn't be a need for such forays, but dinner ends at 7:15 p.m., and I don't go to bed until 2 a.m. Seven hours after my last meal, I usually get a little peckish, just as when I eat lunch at 12, I'm ready for dinner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Peckish for Fast Food | 10/5/1996 | See Source »

Here he's Lenny Weinrib, a sportswriter with a pretty, peckish wife (Helena Bonham Carter) and, to his joy, a five-year-old adopted son Max. Curious about the boy's lineage, Lenny finds Max's natural mom, Linda (Mira Sorvino), a prostitute who also does porn work. How can this lost soul, with her Vargas body and "state-of-the-art fellatrics," be the wellspring of a brilliant child? Lenny must save this creature, for Max and from herself. His anguished pursuit of Linda, in which he tries mating her with a dim boxer (Michael Rapaport), is tracked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: WOODY ALLEN: WHEN ART REDEEMS LIFE | 10/30/1995 | See Source »

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