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...another facility, a 40-sq.-mi. range in the mountains outside Socorro, which actually blows things up. There, this class watches from half a mile away as plastic explosives rip through two offices, mangling their dummy occupants. Later, a 1988 Thunderbird with 200 lbs. of ammonium nitrate in the trunk erupts in a massive geyser of flame, raining jagged steel onto the barren hills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard: Playas | 4/3/2008 | See Source »

...Rita G glides back toward the car. With her four-inch heels, push-up bra, and the camera speed slowed down just slightly, the viewer is treated to a drawn-out display of bouncing bosoms. An atypically restrained Kanye finally makes his appearance when Rita opens the trunk to reveal his bound, gagged, and tuxedoed figure. She gives his ducktaped mouth a kiss and retrieves a shovel. As the camera pans out, the Playmate raises the shovel over her head and begins jabbing it into the trunk. The video then quickly cuts to the words “Flashing Lights?...

Author: By Andrew F. Nunnelly, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: POPSCREEN: Kanye West | 2/22/2008 | See Source »

...United States, racism is the big elephant in the middle of the room. No one wants to acknowledge its existence. People skirt around the elephant to avoid bumping a trunk or treading on a large toenail. But, despite their game of pretending otherwise, its existence threatens to bring the whole building down. However, at other times, a person knocks down a painting or puts a hole in the plaster but blames it on the elephant. This is called playing the race card. Richard Thompson Ford’s new book, “The Race Card: How Bluffing about Bias...

Author: By Candace I. Munroe, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Race Card Yields Nothing But Bad Hands | 2/22/2008 | See Source »

...introduction provided above is entirely my own, and the video actually opens in medias res. Ostensibly, “Scream” is about a theft of some sort. Otherwise why would Nicole Scherzinger sport a ski mask indoors? Or why would Timbaland have video screens installed in the trunk of his whip that read “Target Secured?” There are other questions to ask though. Like why does Timbaland insist on going shirtless for so much of the video? And what, exactly, is this target that’s being secured? In end, the clip?...

Author: By Ruben L. Davis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: POPSCREEN: Timbaland | 2/7/2008 | See Source »

...murder in the Baquba area, where U.S. forces have in recent days launched a major offensive aimed at routing extremists who have been terrorizing the territory for months. Grainy video from a flying drone showed several men emerge from a car parked in a field. The figures opened the trunk and pulled out a struggling victim, who was then thrown into a ditch and shot multiple times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toting Up Civilian Deaths in Iraq | 1/10/2008 | See Source »

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