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...adaptation of Leo Malet's 1942 French detective novel, "120, rue de la Gare." Instead of fedoras you get berets. Instead of bars you get cafes. But pretty much everything else that typifies the P.I. genre - sleazebags, oafish cops and beautiful girls - stays the same. With a fascinating French twist, the action takes place during the Nazi occupation. Where most detective fiction involves a city unofficially run by gangsters, here the villains are outwardly in control. As atmospheres go, it doesn't get much more corrupt and poisonous than this. On streets darkened by air-raid blackout conditions and plastered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Do You Say "Dirty Flatfoot" in French? | 12/5/2003 | See Source »

...Rubix your way to an “A?” It’s worth a twist. Even if your grades don’t improve, you can always use your skills to supplement your caloric intake, as Camann does. “I have been able to get free food by making bets with people at snack bars. They don’t think I can do it and then I get free drinks and free food.” Will late-night ’Noch’s Rubixers rival the Au Bon Pain?...

Author: By A. HAVEN Thompson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Straight As, Cubed | 12/4/2003 | See Source »

...signs of positive movement. For example, Wesley Clark going ballistic last Monday on Fox News: “Don’t you dare twist [my] words into disrespect for the men and women in uniform. I love those men and women. I gave 34 years of my life to them. You better take my words the right way… No sir, you are playing politics with the men and women in uniform.” Them’s fighting words...

Author: By Nathaniel A. Smith, | Title: Whose Heart's Bleeding Now? | 11/25/2003 | See Source »

Singer KYLIE MINOGUE started selling her lingerie line outside Australia this year. But lots of stars are putting a twist on knickers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Celebrity Panty Lines | 11/24/2003 | See Source »

Hunt’s inability to travel seems like a tragic psychological twist of fate...

Author: By A. HAVEN Thompson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tongue Tied | 11/20/2003 | See Source »

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