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...longer handwritten. In modern America the holiday newsletter is printed on the family’s DeskJet and usually has a festive border around it. But don’t be fooled by this ornament, the letter’s content is a veritable popcorn chain of falsehoods, all strung together with conventional and informal prose...

Author: By Charles R. Drummond iv | Title: A White (Lie) Christmas | 12/6/2006 | See Source »

...only thing more alarming than his articulacy (and he is articulate) is the spandex confederate mask he wears laced like a shoe up the back of his head. I saw it as soon as I logged onto his website. Strung along the top, there are photos: Southern Avenger riveting blonds while groping their thighs; Southern Avenger standing out the window of his General Lee thrusting a thumbs-up; and Southern Avenger pointing at me as if he were Uncle Avenger instead...

Author: By Francesca M. Mari, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Seeking the Avenger | 11/29/2006 | See Source »

...modernization of Hanoi, where the streets are strung with drooping skeins of hundreds of electrical wires, some of them powering a single home that has run a line into the tangle. The streets are also clogged with schools of motor scooters, with most of the riders free of helmets but laden with comically massive loads--a quartet of big-screen TV sets, exquisitely balanced piles of lumber, pyramids of water bottles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Escaping Washington, But Not Escaping Iraq | 11/19/2006 | See Source »

...shuddering naked woman strung up in the meat locker was not the problem. Neither was the guy ripping through chains embedded in his flesh to dismantle a ticking bomb in front of him. What worried the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) when the ratings body screened Saw III, the latest installment in the lucrative, torture-based horror franchise, was the disturbing "tonality," according to the film's director, Darren Lynn Bousman. "This movie is too dark?" asks Bousman, a 27-year-old Elvis Costello look-alike from Kansas. "That's what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Splat Pack | 10/22/2006 | See Source »

...truck A Japanese tourist loses an eyeball to a blowtorch-wielding American businessman A man fights an ax-wielding mutant with a flagpole he pulls from a corpse's skull An unlucky spelunker ends up standing in a pool of blood that reaches to her chin A naked woman strung up in a meat locker is sprayed with cold water that hardens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Splat Pack | 10/22/2006 | See Source »

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