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...choking smoke filled the streets. Stopping an insistent woman from moving closer to the carnage, a police officer told her, "Sorry, beyond this you will be walking on bits of people." Inside the consulate, the body of Short's husband Roger, 58, a career diplomat, was buried under a six-foot pile of wreckage. A rescue worker, cloaked in dust as he frantically dug, reported, "We're not pulling anyone out intact...
...name in the bunch is Spike Jonze, primarily due to his award-winning direction of the films Being John Malkovich and Adaptation. His videos echo the anomalous juxtapositions often found in his films; in Daft Punk’s “Da Funk” he guides a six-foot speech-endowed dog through New York City, then orchestrates a meticulously choreographed aerial waltz with Christopher Walken in Fatboy Slim’s “Weapon of Choice.” Though Jonze’s collection is the most satisfying for its breadth of styles, the offerings...
...Noonan’s no stranger to the skies. He calls his lifelong relationship with flying a “love affair.” The six-foot tall, blond-haired, all-American-looking Noonan’s closest brush with aerial death so far took place in his uncle’s small plane. “The plane was too high up and so the propellers froze,” he recalls. “Thick ice covered the wind shield. Everybody in the plane started screaming. That was my scariest moment...
...tossed around the possibility that, as one or more events in my Harvard career indicate, I’m simply not relationship-ready (or willing). What kind of events am I talking about? When I put together a list, it includes (among other things) the following: buying a six-foot inflatable penis with my friends and putting it on the design school’s patio (that was freshman year…apparently this isn’t as funny as it used to be); initiating an unknown number of Quad streakings (some solo) and working for Fifteen Minutes...
...fresh each year. Three weeks ago, the Cochran Christmas was more like Ash Wednesday. De-Shawto and Phenom had no cash for the kids' presents. (The shelter helped out there: people donated gifts from the residents' wish lists.) But they did succumb to the kids' begging and pulled the six-foot faux evergreen tree out of storage: it's still lighted up in the living room because there aren't enough lamps to go around and the kids can huddle around it in the evenings to do their homework...