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...Left on her own, Coraline wanders through the huge old house, now divided into several large apartments, to meet the other residents: Mr. Bobinsky (Ian McShane), an eight-foot-tall blue Russian who runs a circus of more-or-less trained mice; and Miss Spink (Jennifer Saunders) and Miss Forcible (Dawn French), a pair of venerable theatrical troupers endlessly recounting their glory days in the music hall. Coraline also meets a boy her age, Whybe Lovet (Robert Bailey Jr.), the grandson of the grande dame who owns the place, and a talking cat (Keith David) with dark secrets he eventually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Chilly World of Coraline | 2/6/2009 | See Source »

JAMES LAMB, president of Spink America, coin subsidiary of Christie's New York: "The French franc has been a well-designed and elegant little coinage that's always had a certain class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: May 18, 1998 | 5/18/1998 | See Source »

...perversely, the movie's only thoroughly bad person, one Howard Spink (Philip Jackson), who more or less mobilizes everyone. He purports to be a construction consultant, and it's he who arranges the contractors for the job on the bathroom. They are the Nunn Brothers, and since they are identical twins (both played by Phil Daniels), they add immeasurably to the confusion in the McAllister household. Along the way Spink seduces the more vulnerable of Ellie's friends (she even supplies him with the change he needs to buy the requisite condom), cheats the Nunns, presents an exorbitant bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reality Check | 9/6/1993 | See Source »

...Marcia L. Spink of the federal Environmental Protection Agency said that although the summer's increased smog had pushed ozone levels above the recommended safety limits in many New England states, Boston thus far has had few violations...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Summer at Harvard, and the Heat is On | 7/28/1989 | See Source »

...Crimson backline saved its best for last, turning in its finest performance of the season. Besides the individual coverage responsibility--Laura Mayer on Jane Spink, Jeanne Piersiak on Allison Vibert, and Kelly Gately on Jane Duffy--the fullbacks slid, dove, and just plain hustled to repeatedly deny the Huskie offensive many good shots on goal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tournament Tested Tough | 11/10/1981 | See Source »

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