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Howie Blitzer is a pie-faced Long Island (L.I.) urchin who quotes L.I. luminary Walt Whitman in the same breath as issuing a tide of expletives. After a young highway hustler fulfills the obligatory role as an intoxicatingly unruly and unreliable friend, Howie finds comfort in the company of Big John, a heartily patriotic pederast. While the film occasionally veers into heavy-handed obviousness—could Howie be looking for a father figure to supplant his own crooked contractor dad?—and the ending is disappointingly inane, it resists the usual topical temptation for sensationalism. L.I.E. also...

Author: By Irin Carmon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Truth About L.I.E. | 10/12/2001 | See Source »

...waiter’s friendly service continued throughout dinner, which was quite an indulgent affair. Redbones’s extensive menu offers five kinds of ribs (Texas style, Arkansas, St. Louis style, Memphis, and Baby back), brisket, pulled chicken, corn pudding, hush puppies, pecan pie, and all that BBQ fare. With your ribs, you get beans, cole slaw and a choice of sauces. For those who are not quite BBQ connoisseurs, the sweet sauce combined with either the mild or the hot sauces is recommended. Also available are vinegar or the sweet, mild, and hot sauces by themselves...

Author: By Thomasin D. Franken, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Night Out | 9/27/2001 | See Source »

...We’re used to that. Competitors are everywhere anyway. It’s not like we own the area and expect no one to be around.” Whether Voicestream will be able to cut themselves a piece of the Harvard Square pie remains to be seen. For now, Square shoppers can rest assured that should they need a cell phone, they need not look...

Author: By Mollie H. Chen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ready for This Celly? | 9/27/2001 | See Source »

...Hope Over Experience Your Clairvoyant's Calling By KAY JOHNSON The wireless revolution has been a bust for a lot of folks: we're having no success getting American Pie 2 over our Palm Pilots. To find the real visionaries these days, you've got to check out niche operators. In Vietnam, authorities warn that wireless-rigged clairvoyants in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City are duping the distraught families of MIA soldiers from the Vietnam War. Their pitch: by combining their sixth sense with cellular technology, they can help families find the remains of their lost kin. After...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting Time | 9/10/2001 | See Source »

...Opinion, Aug. 10). I moved to San Francisco a year ago—probably the worst time to come here in recent years. No one knew that the dot-com bubble was about to burst, so workers were still flocking here to grab a piece of the pie, and landlords had a field day charging exorbitant rents for ordinary apartments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 9/4/2001 | See Source »

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