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...Symptoms: After a string of forgettable movies and playing that dreamy guy on “My So Called Life,” your acting career—and knack at cracking into the paparazzi eye with rumored romances with toothpick actresses (Lindsay Lohan and Scarlett Johansson, anyone?)—have finally begun to pick...

Author: By Vinita M. Alexander, Ben B. Chung, Daniel J. Hemel, Marianne F. Kaletzky, Kristina M. Moore, Will B. Payne, Abe J. Riesman, and Scoop A. Wasserstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Executive Decisions | 12/15/2005 | See Source »

...could make this all by machine,? says Bedarida, ?but it would be a kind of death. Death of tradition, and death of soul.? Not that the latest high-tech casting machines don't exist on the factory floor; they just share space with village women wielding toothpick paintbrushes and men pounding silver beads onto titanium ribbon with wooden mallets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Hardy: Bali Guy | 11/29/2005 | See Source »

...film version, which Shepard wrote and stars in, should be an event and not a puzzlement. In "opening up" the play, Robert Altman has dissipated some of its caged-animal tension and replaced it with torpid mannerisms. Eddie (Shepard) sucks all the existential meaning out of a toothpick; May (Kim Basinger) thumbs her full lips; the Old Man (Harry Dean Stanton), who has intruded on both their lives way too long, tenderizes a harmonica and gulps down his guilt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Desert Dust:FOOL FOR LOVE | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...felt like clicking my toothpick thin heels together and wishing my way back to Currier...

Author: By Lauren R. Foote, | Title: Sex Is Power | 11/1/2004 | See Source »

...major cities, attracting hungry folk on their way home from work or on a night out with friends. For about $1, a small bowl of 20 or so b'push can be yours?still in the shell, heads attached. Either suck them out or pry them free with a toothpick. But don't expect the garlicky, buttery taste of French escargots. These little guys are simply steamed over a bowl of herb water, giving them the texture and flavor of cooked mushrooms. When you've emptied the shells, wash it all down with the herb-water broth at the bottom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marrakech Express | 2/23/2004 | See Source »

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