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What you don't see is the large flocked Christmas tree on the other side of the living room, blinking with lights and hung with shiny ornaments. You don't see the colored lights strung outside along the eaves--a task my father cheerfully took on every year. You don't see that on the hearth, a glass of milk and a plate of cookies have been set out for Santa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Too Hip for the Holidays | 12/22/2003 | See Source »

...sounds dangerously close to Charlie’s Angels: There are many martial arts action sequences, all of the main characters are women and one of them is played by Lucy Liu. However, whereas Angels was mindless fun, Kill Bill is an intricate homage to classic themes and styles strung together for the most fun and exciting film of the year. Within the film, one can see hints of Tarantino’s influences and tastes—spaghetti westerns, Hong Kong kung fu, Japanese samurai, anime—all adapted to fit into his unique vision...

Author: By Crimson Staff, | Title: Listings, Dec. 12-18 | 12/12/2003 | See Source »

...sounds dangerously close to Charlie’s Angels: There are many martial arts action sequences, all of the main characters are women and one of them is played by Lucy Liu. However, whereas Angels was mindless fun, Kill Bill is an intricate homage to classic themes and styles strung together for the most fun and exciting film of the year. Within the film, one can see hints of Tarantino’s influences and tastes—spaghetti westerns, Hong Kong kung fu, Japanese samurai, anime—all adapted to fit into his unique vision...

Author: By Crimson Staff, | Title: Listings, Dec. 5-11 | 12/5/2003 | See Source »

Which was the real Shakur? Was he the congenial fellow chatting with his MTV confessor Tabitha Soren and explaining cultural inflections? ("Niggers is the guys strung up by a rope during a lynching. Niggaz is the guys walking past the velvet rope on their way into the club.") Or The west coast warrior exchanging rhetoric and artillery in dissing contests with his bitter rivals, East Coast hip-hoppers Biggie Smalls and Puffy Combs? Shakur had been an actor since childhood and showed real gifts in the films Juice and Gridlock'd. Maybe Thug Tupac was one more fictional character, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Retiring Was Not an Option | 11/24/2003 | See Source »

...most important stop for the Crimson defense came late in the third quarter. Trailing 24-13, Yale strung together an impressive 17-play, 80-yard drive down to the Harvard five-yard line. But that was when the Crimson defense stepped...

Author: By David H. Stearns, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Redemption | 11/24/2003 | See Source »

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