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They have gangsta lyrics, they scowl under dreads, and they make cryptic yet suspect handsigns. I was afraid of them from the start. And then when I tremulously put them in my ear, it was an injection of liquid electricity that made me twitch and jolt through the album. They are good...

Author: By Phua MEI Pin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Zebras Get Out of Orange County | 1/8/1999 | See Source »

...always insisted I call him--or would have, I'm sure, had we ever met) to stop making headlines just because of a minor matter like death. Being dead doesn't mean you can't go right on being controversial. Look at Tom Jefferson, 172 years without a twitch, but he's in hot water. And the FBI hasn't even released his file...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ol' Black-and-Blue Eyes | 12/21/1998 | See Source »

...show-stopping voice. She fawns over her fiance (of 14 years!) Nathan, and the audience giggles; she prances around stage as the lead "Hot Box" girl, and the audience roars; she impishly mourns the possibility that Nathan might never marry her, and the audience audibly sighs in sympathy. One twitch of her eyebrows sends everyone into laugher; her shoulder-shimmying, red-wearing, bad-accent-sporting, all-out Adelaide brings down the house...

Author: By Sarah A. Rodriguez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: GUYS & dolls | 12/11/1998 | See Source »

AILING. MICHAEL J. FOX, 37, film and TV actor; of Parkinson's disease. Fox, who stars in ABC's Spin City, disclosed to PEOPLE that the disease was diagnosed in 1991 after he noticed a twitch in his finger during the filming of Doc Hollywood. Fox underwent brain surgery last March for the illness--a progressive degeneration of the central nervous system with no known cure. "I think I can help people by talking," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Dec. 7, 1998 | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

Aside from the comic irony of seeing her decapitate helpless ragdolls, Struthers' main contribution to the show is her name recognition. She portrays Miss Hannigan as little more than a drunk with a penchant for the laundry man, although she does have a rather entertaining drunken twitch, which starts as merely an annoyance but escalates into a full-body contortion of sorts by the final scene. Her singing is at times a high-pitched and quite realistic whine, and at others a growl worthy of the most horrible of lonely spinsters. According to the playbill, Struthers is the first...

Author: By Christina B. Rosenberger, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: IT'S THE HARD KNOCK LIFE | 11/13/1998 | See Source »

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