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...paged one another while the humans were trying to create more humans, pretending to be bosses needing the whatever. Soon the procreating ended. What humans remained were eliminated in their cars. Instead of directing them to the temples of Starbuck, the PDAs drove them off cliffs. And they went splat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wireless Shrugged | 5/29/2000 | See Source »

...your soul to Lucifer merely for deciding to bask in the company of someone whom you find remotely attractive. Worst case scenario--the person with whom you're dining or having coffee passes out from actually being seen in public having a meal and interacting with another human being. Splat! Your date slumps, face-first into soup or another hot liquid, nearly drowns, scalds his or her face and requires paramedics. You've got a story to tell for the rest of your life. Your kids will beg to hear about the time you got to ride in the ambulance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POSTCARD FROM DALLAS | 8/14/1998 | See Source »

...Angeles, but already the locals know her as the woman who matched Jackie Chan stunt for impossible stunt in Police Story III: Super Cop. And maybe they think that punishing her body for film art--by, say, leaping off the top of a runaway truck to land splat! on the hood of Chan's speeding convertible--is all Michelle Yeoh does. She recalls that on one of her first L.A. photo shoots, "The beautician told me, 'You know, for a stuntwoman you have gorgeous nails.' Well, thank you, but I'm an actress who just happens to enjoy doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: EVERYBODY SAY YEOH! | 5/5/1997 | See Source »

...imaginings of the American Spectator. Clinton bashers will treasure the author's rendition of how Susan Stanton (Hillary) reacts to the news that Cashmere McLeod (Gennifer Flowers) had her husband on tape: "Susan hauled off and slapped him right across the face. It was a perfect shot, a resonant splat--God, she was even good at that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: AUTHOR! AUTHOR! | 1/29/1996 | See Source »

...noticed that he had no safety belt. Stallone was bothered most by scenes filmed on a seven-story indoor wall at Rome's Cinecitta studios. "That was a lot scarier than the Alps," he says. "There's something about knowing that the floor is there and you could go splat at any time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Adventure: Peak Performance | 6/14/1993 | See Source »

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