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...Kennedy is "a plump, liberal amount of burger," the menu reads...

Author: By Daniela J. Lamas, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bartley's Burger Cottage Celebrates 40 Years in the Square | 2/21/2001 | See Source »

Once upon a time, it seemed that nearly all stories began at the beginning (or even "In the beginning..."). They ended at The End. Then came the 20th century. Stately, plump Buck Mulligan stepped down the opening sentence of Ulysses, Gregor Samsa woke up a cockroach, and nothing was the same anymore. The dream logic of surrealism, the theater of the absurd, the shock edits of the French New Wave all followed. Soon you could have an ape-man throw a bone in the air and--blink--it's an orbiting spaceship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tell Me A New Story | 2/19/2001 | See Source »

...Mergers or not, until at least some of this happens, we'll continue to be vulnerable to a system that is always just a thunderstorm away from paralysis. So pack some patience and a plump book before you leave for the airport this summer. You'll need both. And have a nice flight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Fix Flight Delays | 2/1/2001 | See Source »

Mergers or not, until at least some of this happens, we'll continue to be vulnerable to a system that is always just a thunderstorm away from paralysis. So pack some patience and a plump book before you leave for the airport this summer. You'll need both. And have a nice flight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How We Can Make the Skies Friendlier: Five Steps | 1/22/2001 | See Source »

...that's a gift for fiction") and wild invective ("I'm gonna tear out your heart and piss on your lungs through the hole in the chest") to a cast that feasts on the dialogue like an old-time studio boss on a starlet's plump naivete. Hail to Alec Baldwin, Sarah Jessica Parker, William H. Macy, Philip Seymour Hoffman, David Paymer and the other confectors of this tasty inside dish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: State And Main Directed By David Mamet | 1/15/2001 | See Source »

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