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...machinations. Theron is disarmingly seductive in the role (as usual), using her feminine charms to win Rudy's trust, while Sinise is masterful in his villainous turn as Gabriel. The ruthlessness and cruelty conveyed through Sinise's performance accurately portrays a desparate man at the end of his rope, spurred to extreme measures by frustration and greed...

Author: By Richard Ho, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Reindeer games Sleighs 'Em | 2/25/2000 | See Source »

Just before the halfway point in Charles L. Mee's play Full Circle, East Berlin police officer Herman (John Douglas Thompson), standing 20 feet in the air on a thin rope bridge, frantically asks fellow guard Gunter (Boni B. Alvarez) if they can "have an intermission." After Gunter suggests that he get to the other side of the rope bridge first, Herman cries out that he has to go to the men's room "right now," and drops his trousers. How does Gunter stop this crisis? Only a rendition of "YMCA" will get the petrified Herman in motion...

Author: By Jason F. Clarke, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: What Goes Around... | 2/25/2000 | See Source »

...phone 21 "Goodnight" girl 23 Out-of-date, in dicts. 24 Bank claim 26 Fix the brakes 28 Abner's radio partner 30 Toward the tiller 31 Skimpy top 34 Tiny amount 37 Impact sound 38 Radio parts 40 Ford is offering these to all its employees 42 Rodeo rope 44 Stimpy or Felix 45 The Name of the Rose author 46 Icelandic poetry collection 47 Half a Heyerdahl title 48 Nation that backs Hizballah 49 Stutz Bearcat contemporaries 50 Churchillian gesture 51 Roaster's platform 52 43-Down's nat. 53 Pull a boner 54 Taxpayer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz Crossword Feb. 21, 2000 | 2/21/2000 | See Source »

...Hampshire, it was not enough to ride into town whistling Hail to the Chief, followed by an entourage that included nearly as many clean-cut men and women talking into their sleeves as you'd expect to see when the real President came to town. There were rope lines and security sweeps and hard-bodied guys with sunglasses and bulges from the holsters under their suit coats who kept the crowds at bay and glared at anyone who looked like a trouble-maker. Bush would shake hands and sign autographs endlessly after one of his speeches, but he wouldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: McCain's Moment | 2/14/2000 | See Source »

Center Jen Botterill received a pass from defenseman Jamie Hagerman at the blue line, sliced through a couple of Terrier skaters between the circles and found rope at 6:47 of the first period to put the Crimson ahead for good...

Author: By Peter D. Henninger, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Hockey Trounces Terriers | 2/9/2000 | See Source »

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