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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Piper’s dad started calling us Smurf because our team was blue, we were all three years younger than the other girls on the team, and we were also just short for our age,” Banfield says. “So we were disproportionately shorter than everyone else in the league...

Author: By John R. Hein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Taking Their Final Shot Together | 3/25/2005 | See Source »

...seem quirky. And in 1980, at 9 years old, after the U.S. defeated the Soviet Union, I chose hockey. Not so much to be patriotic but because I saw it as a personality opportunity. One that would pay richer dividends than my poorly thought-out gambit of collecting puffy Smurf stickers.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Someone Has To Miss Hockey | 2/21/2005 | See Source »

...acting challenge presented by King Arthur, she says, "I had to work out physically quite a bit, but pretty much it's scream a lot and enjoy being painted blue." (Her Guinevere wears so much blue war paint that she looks like the world's most ferocious Smurf.) Knightley is similarly dismissive of her breakthrough role in Bend It Like Beckham and her beatific cameo in Love Actually. Few actresses talk as frankly about the artistic limits of their work or as exuberantly about their physical imperfections. (Knightley likes to point out her acne for those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Keira's Quest | 7/5/2004 | See Source »

...whether they'll try to extract revenge," says Orlando, 38, Jean's youngest brother. Orlando lives upstairs in his mother's house because, he says, he feels he has to look after her. He has created his own immaculate world out of his boyhood room. Between the Smurf doll and the baseball trophies he has set up a big-screen TV and framed photos of his family. When he quietly leaves each day for his job running a city recreation center, he locks his bedroom door. He has never told Jean that he disapproves of him. He says Jean "didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Outside The Gates | 1/21/2002 | See Source »

...Turner's job to make sure that this group performs up to the Crimson's own expectations. With a quarterback that will have thrown, at most, six varsity passes in his career and a running back in Chuck Nwokocha who, at 5'6, even Murphy has called a "smurf," the blocking must be superb...

Author: By Michael R. Volonnino, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Captain Clare: Big Guy, Bigger Heart | 9/15/2000 | See Source »

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