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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...unit, and it’s not that he’s a bad guy­—he just enjoys torturing his trainees. Siek’s tough love continues when the marines ship out to fight Saddam. The desert heat gradually drives the soldiers stir-crazy. Socialized to kill, they become frustrated by the lack of combat and take out their aggression on each other and themselves. This volatile situation is only exacerbated by the appearance of actual Iraqis, who show up late in the movie and don’t stick around for long. Near...

Author: By Jake G. Cohen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Jarhead | 11/3/2005 | See Source »

SensiTile and its creator are already causing quite a stir in architectural circles. Lath won the award for best new talent at the 2004 International Contemporary Furniture Fair, which has sparked interest from a number of construction and home-design companies. Homeowners are ordering the tiles for bathrooms and entryways and as art fixtures. Lath is reinvesting any profits into the company. "My goal for the business is to be able to fund more research," he says. "There are more manifestations I haven't completely explored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cutting-Edge Ceramics: Playing Tricks With Textures | 10/30/2005 | See Source »

...that the concert felt like a series of song islands suspended in a morass of re-tuning and feedback. But what songs! Forget Boeckner’s head-banging spectacle-mongering; if “I’ll Believe in Anything” doesn’t stir you, you might be dead. The first few bars of the song, which were truly well-positioned last in the set, descended on the crowd like the mythical Circe’s spell, transforming tired and overheated twentysomethings into a roiling swinish mass oinking-along for their mother?...

Author: By David F. Hill, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Wolf Parade Howls | 10/27/2005 | See Source »

...Hallows Eve weekend? Then fill your belly with this warm concoction before hitting the streets for a little trick or treat. 1 gallon of apple cider 3 cups of bourbon 1.5 teaspoons of cinnamon 1 teaspoon of ground ginger 1.5 teaspoons of allspice 1 teaspoon of ground cloves Stir over low heat until satisfactorily...

Author: By FM Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Drinky Drink | 10/26/2005 | See Source »

...portraying salty, street-smart women. Aware - and somewhat chagrined - that they'll never be the shapeliest beauties in the room, classic Balasko characters waste no time trying to seduce with verbal niceties or polite formalities. Adapting that approach to a more wounded and vulnerable persona, Berry first created a stir as the plain, plump, unfairly named Lolita in Look At Me, who tries desperately to win affection in a world dominated by a famous, self-obsessed father. She followed up with another impressive portrayal as the teenage double-bass virtuoso and aspiring jazz musician Hannah, whose sweet struggles with sexist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Her Own Woman | 10/23/2005 | See Source »

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