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...People are intrigued. It's kind of weird, because it didn't come from the FDO," said one proctor who asked that her name not be used. "I don't remember anything like this ever happening before...

Author: By Parker R. Conrad, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Proctors E-Mailed Unofficial Evaluation | 6/7/2001 | See Source »

...McDormand locked in a jealous adagio, is twistily faithful to the noir formula. The Lynch, which sails through its first 90 minutes as a ripping yarn about a mystery woman (brunet Laura Harring) and the would-be starlet (blond Naomi Watts) who gets involved with her, goes defiantly, inexplicably weird in its final third. And jolly smart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canned Heat | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

...FOLKLORE AND MYTHOLOGY www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html TALL TALES Read the original story of Hamlet - it's weird! - and find a Japanese Cinderella from this exhaustive compendium of legends and myths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best of the Web | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

...troubling as it seems? What does getting jiggy with a mannequin say about where we are as a species? Humans have always practiced self-love, it's just that faking it has never looked this real. Except for the faint seams down their sides and fingers that bend in weird directions, the dolls are almost uncomfortably lifelike. Unlike many inflatable partners or love toys, Realdolls don't come with vibrators, ticklers or other enhancements. McMullen wanted them to be as natural as possible. When I ask why he didn't give them cellulite and a voice recording that says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Well, Hello, Dolly | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

...TiVo has decided it knows what's best for me. Pretending to be a responsible journalist, I have the news on in my office, but my TiVo - the digital TV recorder that is a trusted sidekick for my job as a television critic - figures I'd rather watch So Weird, a goopy family show on the Disney Channel. And unlike my VCR, TiVo can do something about it. A couple of clicks from its infrared channel changer and instead of the conflict in the Middle East, there's One Day at a Time's Mackenzie Phillips - yes, she's still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Couch Potato Blight | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

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