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...melodrama. But the western will not yield. Silverado sprays the buckshot of its four or five story lines across the screen with the abandon of a drunken galoot aiming at a barn door. Though the film interrupts its chases and shootouts to let some fine actors stare meaningfully or spit out a little sagebrush wisdom, it rarely allows them to build the camaraderie that an old cowhand like Gabby Hayes exuded with no sweat. Agreeable but never compelling, Silverado proves it takes more than love of the western to make a good one. Maybe the dudes at K-Tell were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cuisinartistry | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

...half out of the water. Coming to the Miyuki Bridge at last, he leaped down the steep stone steps, stumbling over others plummeting down. There was a logjam of bodies at the base of the steps. "I was so scared." He tried to drink the muddy water, but spit it out. He clambered up the riverbank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What the Boy Saw: A Fire In the Sky | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

...Neighborhood”, these puppets inhabit a fantasy world where then can walk, talk, and break dance just like real b-girls and b-boys. An adorably miniaturized Dizzee emerges from a jack-in-the-box atop a grand piano to join his puppet companions as they spit rhymes, beat box, and mack fly honeys...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POP SCREEN: Music Videos | 4/8/2005 | See Source »

...says people frequently spit on or curse at vendors and tell them to get a job, but he adds that selling Spare Change is no different from selling any other paper...

Author: By Anne E. Bensson and Anna M. Friedman, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Vendor Asks Square To ‘Spare | 3/23/2005 | See Source »

Perhaps the ultimate role model for women in science is Shirley Ann Jackson, the president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The first African-American woman at M.I.T. to get a Ph.D.--in theoretical physics in 1973--Jackson knows a thing or two about overcoming discrimination. Shot at and spit upon by whites while a college student, she went on to do research at Fermilab and Bell Labs. In 1995 she became chair of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and in 2003 was elected president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world's largest general-scientific society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Steering Girls into Science | 2/27/2005 | See Source »

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