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...insert" scene of a crumpled letter tossed onto a table. "I like to sweat the details," he says. "The second-unit stuff is what makes the audience eat the popcorn faster. Making a movie and not directing the little moments is like drinking a soda and leaving the little slurp puddle for someone else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: PETER PAN GROWS UP BUT CAN HE STILL FLY? | 5/19/1997 | See Source »

...world, our price complaint must look a little silly. Even at an average $1.30 per gal., gas prices are as low today in real terms as they were in 1950--and nearly 40% lower than after the last embargo's price peak in 1981. Thanks to these bargains, Americans slurp as much oil as ever. In France, Germany and Japan, meanwhile, a gallon of gas costs more than $4. Taxes there account for 50% to 80% of the pump price. Here, by contrast, federal and state taxes together average 38 cents per gal., less than 30% of the price. Thanks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAISE GAS TAXES NOW! | 5/13/1996 | See Source »

...liberalism, environmentalism, Hollywood, and for old time's sake he hits on Mikhail Gorbachev.) He has an audiocassette of the book -- the ideal way to get through the tome, since Rush not only abridges the text but provides comedy sound effects (dolphin noises, Meryl Streep impressions and a frog slurp). He has the Limbaugh Letter, a monthly compendium "dedicated to preserving my wisdom for the ages" and "printed on nonrecycled paper." He has T shirts, mugs, bumper stickers. In salesmanship as in showmanship, he's a winner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Conservative Provocateur Or BIG BLOWHARD? | 10/26/1992 | See Source »

...every lunch and dinner for the past three years, my roommate turns on all his Texas charm and asks whether he can get me some ice cream. "Whoops!" he pretends to remember. "You can't digest it! HAHAHAHAHA! [slurp...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Liberty, Equality, Ice Cream | 10/11/1989 | See Source »

...converted, for purposes of contemptuous calculation, into some lower life-form? Do moviegoers suddenly seem to them to be, say, a vast colony of ants mindlessly munching through forests of Roman numerals, unconcerned about the taste, good or bad, of anything placed in our path? (Yum -- Indiana Jones III; slurp -- Star Trek V: The Final Frontier; burp -- Ghostbusters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Time for The Ants to Revolt? | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

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