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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...recent night, three sergeants from the American Midwest sit at a table in a pizza joint downrange with a heavily made-up, platinum blonde Russian in a tight T shirt and pants. She sips mango juice and says nothing. Dressed in T shirts and jeans, the men swig Budweisers from the bottle and joke with each other. They do not want to give their names. "Just chillin' out," says one, his brown hair cropped on the sides and brush-cut short on top. He likes the Army, he says, though he can't wait to get home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Base Instincts | 8/5/2002 | See Source »

...Smith is force-feeding me olives stuffed with jalapenos and garlic as we lie on her giant pink-satin bed watching Jerry Springer. "Why do those women get up and take off all their clothes?" she asks. After the eighth olive, my mouth on fire, she offers me a swig from her strawberry-yogurt chaser. "I've been in my jammies all day," she drawls in a Texas accent. Next we share a bowl of sliced pickles in lemon juice. She is not pregnant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Anna Goes Prime Time | 7/22/2002 | See Source »

Paul, you usually don't go to the Oscars even when you're nominated. Why? [Newman makes a face like he's just taken a swig of lemon juice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Two For The Road | 7/8/2002 | See Source »

...lacked the talent or initiative to seize the win. Maybe “IT” could come in a bottle—made with 100% pure “Intensity”—and the annoyingly passive Allan Houston could uncap it before games, take a swig and score 27 a night like he should...

Author: By Martin S. Bell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Saved By The Bell: Already Sick and Tired of IT | 12/4/2001 | See Source »

...chat with Alfred Molina, who confirms that he tapped into the British love of dressing up and being silly. He asks to be excused for a minute, explaining that he'd lost his wife. "After that performance?" I ask innocently. Molina was taking a swig of his drink at that moment and my light jest catches him at the wrong moment. He doubles over to prevent the loss of drink that occurs when one laughs on an inward sip. "Good one, mate!" he sputters. "I'll tell the wife that one. If I find her..." His reputation for being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doing the Oscar Bash | 3/26/2001 | See Source »

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