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...SONDHI LIMTHONGKUL? When Thaksin's key opponent gets a call on his mobile phone there is no chirrup of birdsong or snatch of the William Tell Overture. Instead the phone emits a recording of his own voice shrieking, "Thaksin! Get Out!" Sondhi, 58, is a former media mogul who was hammered during the Asian financial crisis but managed to claw his way back into the black with help from a fellow magnate: ironically, Thaksin himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking Heat | 2/12/2006 | See Source »

...Desperate Housewives) with indie stuff (TransAmerica), plus she plays a sympathetic, slightly freakish outsider, in a role requiring lots of makeup. Oscar loves that: see recent awards for Nicole Kidman in The Hours and Theron in Monster. In fact, I've just talked myself into saying she'll snatch the prize from till-now front-runner Reese Witherspoon, whose turn as June Carter Cash is lovely but clearly a secondary role in Walk the Line. Oh, and one other thing: Keira Knightley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Can Derail The Brokeback Express? | 1/31/2006 | See Source »

...Every time there’s a verbal mash-up of “penis” and “vagina” (examples: “snatch-pole,” “twat-sicle,” “man-gina?...

Author: By Abe J. Riesman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Screenshots: "Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo" | 12/8/2005 | See Source »

...Dawn. For their fifth single, the Seasons team produced a masterpiece. Anyway, their apotheosis. Since the simple days of "Sherry," Crewe and Gaudio had been listening to Phil Spector's productions for the Crystals and Ronettes; the arrangement is both burlier and more complex. The song begins with a snatch of spoken doggerel ("Pretty eyes of midsummer's morn, / They call her Dawn"). Then the drummer has a quick snit fit, and organ and chimes lead into the plaint, "Dawn, go away, I'm no good for you," as a guitar strums 2/4 Latino figures. There are six different melodic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Falsetto Meets "The Sopranos" | 11/25/2005 | See Source »

Even in the current situation, it is far from impossible to snatch a recruit from Penn and Princeton’s grasp. The other six Ivy institutions can offer benefits—such as immediate playing time—that the Quakers and Tigers sometimes cannot...

Author: By Joseph L. Abel and Michael R. James, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: HARVARD BASKETBALL 2005-06: Mining Talent Hard Task in Ivy League | 11/18/2005 | See Source »

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