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Acklin said he was walking down Garden Street near Byerly Hall when he heard a car screech and saw the suspect in the street, about five feet in front...

Author: By Scott A. Resnick, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Senior Twice Nabs Theft Suspect | 10/8/1997 | See Source »

...York Stock Exchange. No listing. Nope. Or call Dallas--Irving, to be precise, home of the Dallas Cowboys--and ask for the number of Da'Boys. No listing. You provide the address--1 Cowboys Parkway--and are finally given a number, which produces only the screech of the no-such-number signal. The list goes on: no number for state representatives' offices in New England, or for the Mayflower hotel in Washington, D.C. One operator, when asked for a number in Des Moines, informed the caller that there was no such place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIRECTORY RESISTANCE | 8/11/1997 | See Source »

...flesh and even more penis talk than on some 8 o'clock sitcoms. For all that, Crash doesn't work. Sexual without being sexy, the film moves smoothly but slowly, like a Caddy on a revolving showroom platform. Dialogue scenes are conducted in a reverent whisper; only the brakes screech, just after a climax or before a death. Even the carnographic love play--in which each character has predictably weird sex with most of the others--is too studied. The fine actors disport themselves solemnly, like giant hood ornaments of lust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: SLOW-MOVING VIOLATION | 3/24/1997 | See Source »

Academic categories include "Dead White Europeans" and "Conjunction Junction," while pop culture sections range from "Bands that Rhyme with Zmead" to the more obtuse "According to Screech...

Author: By Jessie M. Amberg, | Title: Hussain Will Appear on MTV | 12/7/1996 | See Source »

...have to dedicate your life to Demon to get published," pointed out the magazine's vice-president Jeremy "Screech" Friedman...

Author: By David S. Goodman, | Title: Humor Magazine Will Make Its Grand Debut | 5/10/1995 | See Source »

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