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Because Moore is too old to spank, he deserves a good slap in the face. He's like a spoiled child who runs around saying outrageous things to the delight of his dim-witted parents. Moore isn't cute; he's dangerous. To imply that 9/11 could have been prevented is ludicrous. Moore's anti-American rhetorical bomb throwing should not go unanswered. JOSEPH CALVINI SR. Mamaroneck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 2, 2004 | 8/2/2004 | See Source »

...that, the mission controllers, who in recent years have whipsawed between the devastation of the shuttle disaster and the celebration of the Mars landings, once again had reason to cheer, whoop and slap one another on the back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Secrets Of The Rings | 7/12/2004 | See Source »

...really a TV movie released in theaters because it was deemed too rough for the small screen) was The Killers in 1964. It's a bit of a cheap thrill to watch Reagan play a crime heavy and do his professional best in a scene where he has to slap Angie Dickinson. The Killers, violent and cynical, was a curious coda to Reagan's career. But, in a way, he had only been moonlighting as a movie actor ever since his Army days. He was moving into politics, graduating from Hollywood in the '40s to Sacramento...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: His Days in Hollywood: Ronald Wilson Reagan (1911-2004) | 6/14/2004 | See Source »

Spring has finally come to Cambridge. The air smells of lilac; flip-flops slap the brick sidewalks. Hemlines go up. Seersucker and madras glow prematurely, like early gladiolus. We are 19, or 20, or 21. During the day, we sprawl on patches of grass to sunbathe and complain about how much work we have to do, our voices floating to each other, languid, in the warm air. At night, music and laughter from formals drift from house courtyards out over the river...

Author: By Phoebe Kosman, | Title: Poor Man's Fight | 5/17/2004 | See Source »

...part of Bobby. The choreography (by Kristi L. Jobson ’06, Kim M. McCarthy ’04, and Mariecel C. Pilapil ’05) is worth mentioning, if only to say that it much more suggestive, especially during a rendition of “Slap that Base,” than you might expect from such a 30’s-style musical...

Author: By Alexandra D. Hoffer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gershwin’s Follies Steal The Show | 5/7/2004 | See Source »

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