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...everything from interviews to impromptu freestyle sessions, punctuated by mortar fire and MTV-style editing. The movie doesn’t quite shock and doesn’t quite awe. But it does achieve a subtler success: it captures the difference between the disjointed world of war and the smooth, clearly-labeled sound bytes of the coverage on the nightly news...

Author: By Susan E. Mcgregor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Movie Review: Gunner Palace | 3/10/2005 | See Source »

...chunk of reddish clay on the wheel, Barnard alternatively pressed and stretched the shapeless mass into an imposing two-foot tall tower. Within minutes, he reshaped the mound into an attractive vase. He lifted it off the wheel and began to prod it with his fingers, smushing in the smooth, round sides and denting the upper lip quite a bit. “Now,” he says, satisfied, “it feels heavy...

Author: By Cara B. Eisenpress, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Professional Potter Shows and Throws | 3/10/2005 | See Source »

...Arular’s sea of shouts and chants, “Sunshowers” alone magically manifests a falsetto hook smooth enough for a Ghostface single (the verse even has a 36 Chambers--style PLO shoutout!). On the moodily droning hidden track, “M.I.A.,” she mutters magnetically about Kate Moss and George Bush in the same breath. Each of Arular’s 13 tracks, really, is a standout—even the three skits—and its 40-minute run time is far too brief...

Author: By Simon W. Vozick-levinson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Review of the Week: M.I.A. | 3/10/2005 | See Source »

...last basket, a smooth jumper off the dribble from the top of the key, sliced the Dartmouth lead to three and sent the crowd into an uproar...

Author: By Aidan E. Tait, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: More Mo | 3/9/2005 | See Source »

...have juggled two lives for more than three decades? Perhaps the answer is that there wasn't such a dichotomy after all. Serial killers "like to have authority over others," says McCrary. Rader's life--from his city job to his community roles--"was about dominating others. He was smooth enough to do it in socially acceptable ways, when it was at church or Cub Scouts. But in his pathological life, he did it in a very abnormal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Was the Killer Next Door? | 3/7/2005 | See Source »

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