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When a law student asked if newspapers should publish the Danish cartoons depicting the Islamic Prophet Muhammed, Flynt said that every newspaper in the nation should “publish the cartoons tomorrow,” and a “group of towel heads [had gotten] away with intimidating the whole world.” The use of the racial slur drew hisses from some in the crowd...

Author: By Paras D. Bhayani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Flynt Faces Rowdy Law Crowd | 4/24/2006 | See Source »

Without funding, without King, and without the reporting power that he and the paper once had, Lottman says that by 1968, it was time for the Courier to throw in the towel...

Author: By Stephen M. Fee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hope Alongside Hatred | 4/12/2006 | See Source »

...only gets better from there: after the carnage ends, Hartnett pops apathetically onto the screen wearing only a towel, his attire of choice for the following half hour. In said towel, Hartnett will be kidnapped by two warring crime bosses who think he’s someone else, get involved in a series of elaborate assassination plots, and flirt wittily with his next-door neighbor played by Lucy Liu. Every once in a while, Bruce Willis drops in to murder somebody with a pouty face...

Author: By Hayes H. Davenport, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Lucky Number Slevin | 4/5/2006 | See Source »

Maybe the snappiest of all are the five or six bomb GQ suits Hartnett goes through after ditching the towel...

Author: By Hayes H. Davenport, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Lucky Number Slevin | 4/5/2006 | See Source »

...York City with a broken nose and no wallet and unable to find the friend in whose apartment he's staying. On the upside, there's food in the cupboard and a funny, flirtatious woman (Lucy Liu) across the hall. On the downside, he gets abducted, in a towel and slippers, by a pair of thugs, and we begin to wonder just how ironic the title Lucky Number Slevin is going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Of Banter and Bullets | 4/2/2006 | See Source »

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