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...characters--aspiring rapper Ali G, gay Austrian fashionista Brüno and Borat Sagdiyev, the U.S.-loving Kazakh--get away with astonishing rudeness because people are too weirded out by youth culture, flaming gay guys and foreigners to question them. When one of his guises gets too famous to sucker people into being interviewed, he molds himself into another one. He could be any outsider society avoids by giving a pass--a religious freak, a veteran, an old man. "Ali G played on people's ability to think that young people are so different from them they wouldn't recognize absolute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Borat Make Funny Joke On Idiot Americans! High-Five! | 10/29/2006 | See Source »

...betting on Lafayette. But I cannot stomach Polhemus’ 43% completion percentage. If the third time isn’t the charm, I’m a total sucker...

Author: By Jonathan Lehman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rating Passers, Ignoring Wikipedia | 9/28/2006 | See Source »

Microfridge: 1. Refrigerator-microwave combo rented out by HSA to sucker first-years who have no hope of either keeping their food cold or heating anything up within three hours. 2. It’s actually cheaper to purchase one than to rent from...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Harvardisms: Learning The Lingo | 8/29/2006 | See Source »

...cooling it with water - electricity comes out. So we're essentially running your refrigerator backwards, with a sealed system that makes about as much noise a your refrigerator, and will last as many years without maintenance. And it runs on any fuel. Anything that makes the bottom of that sucker hot, will give you electricity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Segway Sage Speaks | 8/14/2006 | See Source »

...paraphrase Yoda: Always there are two--a trainer and a fighter. In Pound for Pound, the former is Dan Cooley, a once great, now pathetic and drunk trainer to whom life has delivered one sucker punch too many (no, that will not be the last boxing cliché in this review). The fighter is Chicky Garza, a good-hearted, hard-hitting Tex-Mex punk, 62-9 with 33 KOs and a whole lot of old-fashioned bad luck. Dan and Chicky need each other. Connect the dots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Them's Fighting Words | 7/30/2006 | See Source »

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