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...welcome this latest installment in a popular series about two rabbits, feckless Max and his sensible sister Ruby. As usual, key plot developments are illustrated with flaps--and who can resist lifting a flap to see what's underneath, especially in Wells' bright, cartoony drawings? Max covets a Sand-Spitter motorcycle with Bigfoot tires like Wilma Warthog's, so even though it's July, he writes to Santa Claus requesting one. "Nobody writes to Santa in the summer," Ruby reminds him. His letter is diverted to Grandma, who, since it consists solely of tire tracks, misunderstands and replies with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Gift Bag of Children's Books | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...libido; he's too busy screwing his clients to waste time screwing a secretary.) Also gone are the interior monologues, and good riddance; Sidney has no soul to confide to us. But he has a handsome line of patter - a slick pitch (most likely a spitter) for shoddy merchandise. He stops you on the street, talks fast, and suddenly you're wearing a fake Rolex. You've been had, in the grimy mid-Manhattan theme park called Sidneyland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Sweet Smells | 3/21/2002 | See Source »

...Wants to Be a Millionaire," Americans still love to hate the rich. So when a guy who makes $6 million a year is caught on tape spitting on a man who wears a blue-collared shirt for a living, it's a sure bet that the spitter's fight for public redemption will be difficult, if not impossible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hey, They're Athletes, Not Philosophers | 5/30/2000 | See Source »

...just didn't want to lose," the slow spitter tells...

Author: By Micaela K. Root and Anna M. Schneider-mayerson, S | Title: Fifteen Minutes: CRLS.: The Kids Next Door | 10/21/1999 | See Source »

...audiences ought to be issued batting helmets -- nothing but high hard ones whizzing at us. But writer and director Phil Alden Robinson, the auteur of every grownup American boy's sentimental favorite, Field of Dreams, is pitching smart in his latest start: knucklers and sliders, and maybe the occasional spitter. The result is sweet bemusement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lunatic Enterprise | 9/14/1992 | See Source »

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