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...garbage can. Line it if you are sanitation-conscious. Mix all ingredients in the garbage can. Ice to taste. Mix with a shovel or similarly large object...

Author: By Alice O. Wong, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Drinky-Drink - Special 2X edition! | 11/14/2002 | See Source »

...form of employment, because it's such miserable work. That's how you tell a rookie: if they actually think the writing's fun. I guess it is for the first one or two, but after that it just becomes miserable work, like digging in the dirt with a shovel. But it's something you have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Tom Clancy | 7/29/2002 | See Source »

...resigns. But these are trifles - even I, at times, intend to make love all night but last only 15 minutes. • That one mustn't listen to the smooth-talkers. The next time someone says, 'I'm going to plant a tree,' he'll have to have a shovel in his hand before I believe him. With his iron-clad resume, VIP-packed address book and the balls of a drunken woman, Messier passed himself off as a shrewd industrialist when he was in fact at very best a cold-blooded financier (a redundancy of terms, I know). • That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Who Fell to Earth | 7/7/2002 | See Source »

...hasn’t felt like a crisis situation yet,” Carlson says. “They’ll come out of the woodwork and unleash some of that fury and anger if a shovel is planted into the ground...

Author: By Lauren R. Dorgan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Battle Next Door | 4/12/2002 | See Source »

...that. You see, we furnish him with items." J.J. Hunsecker (Burt Lancaster): "Yes, with your clients' names attached. That's the only reason the poor slobs pay you: to see their names in my column all over the world.... [Press agents also] dig up scandal about prominent people and shovel it thin among columnists who give them space." - dialogue from the film "Sweet Smell of Success...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Sweet Smells | 3/21/2002 | See Source »

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