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...gonna take over all the creatures in it. And I say that she’s gonna have to fight the president of the goblins, Drew Goblin Faust.RR: Nice. Are there any other jabs at Harvard officials?DA: We always try to incorporate a lot of Harvard humor. We poke jabs at some of the a cappella groups and –RR: What do you have against a cappella groups?DA: Ah, you know, just friendly humor.Cliff N. Murray ’10RR: Who do you play in “Fable Attraction”?CM: I play Oldielocks...

Author: By Jeffrey W. Feldman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ROVING REPORTER: Fable Attraction | 2/15/2008 | See Source »

...Vote Poke This site compiles voter rolls from each state, allowing visitors to check their registration status immediately. Voters can also "poke" their friends - remind them via email - about checking their registration statuses. VotePoke is part of a new set of online tools sponsored by MoveOn.org...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Online Resource Guide For Young Voters | 1/31/2008 | See Source »

...work only means so much to its intended audience. But is the film any good? That’s trickier.“Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story” plays exactly what you’d expect: another ironically hyperbolic tall-tale comedy that happens to poke fun at other movies…just without Will Ferrell. Reilly can field jokes as Dewey Cox, the loveable dolt who happens to be a musical genius, and his demeanor of perpetual understatement allows for the faith-in-the-underdog mentality that underlies the Johnny Cash biopic “Walk...

Author: By Ryan J. Meehan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story | 12/14/2007 | See Source »

...went to great lengths to get new specimens. For Robyn Stacey, shooting the wonders of the Macleay Museum's natural history collections took its own kind of intrepidity. She had to climb and re-climb the three flights of stairs to the museum's public gallery; crisscross Sydney to poke through storerooms; mount ladders to fetch preserving jars from high shelves; lie on floors to photograph specimens too fragile to be moved more than a meter from their cases. The sumptuous result, Museum (Cambridge University Press), provides the armchair-dwelling naturalist with a lift, a key to the storerooms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great and Small | 11/9/2007 | See Source »

Last Sunday as the city of Boston celebrated the recent World Series win for the Red Sox I was getting ready to poke fun at the drunken locals on the evening news shouting in that famed Boston (Bas-tahn) tone. As one guy attempted the Pabelbom jig while shouting incomprehensibly, I came perilously close to calling my roommate into the common room to mock this inebriated, unintelligible soul who apparently missed the “Sesame Street” episode brought to us by the letter...

Author: By Jessica C. Coggins | Title: Don’t Mess with Texas | 11/5/2007 | See Source »

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