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With the dexterity of Zorro, you whip open Microsoft Word and commence your exposition...

Author: By Baratunde R. Thurston, | Title: Paper Lost? Tricks For Recovery | 10/14/1997 | See Source »

...Whip out the tuxes and rev up your limos. An Oscar-style awards show called the "Parade of Stars" is coming to Harvard...

Author: By Adam J. Levitin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Will Host 'Parade of Stars' | 10/8/1997 | See Source »

...would betray her principles to shield a President to whom she didn't seem much attached. But her public vote of no confidence in her task force's probe makes it harder now for her to argue that a special counsel isn't necessary, despite her latest effort to whip the team into shape. Washington was surprised in March when Reno chose Laura Ingersoll, a lower-echelon prosecutor in the department's public-integrity section, to head the politically sensitive investigation. From the start there were tensions between Ingersoll and the FBI agents she worked with. Building on her experience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RENO'S NEW FOCUS | 9/29/1997 | See Source »

...change was so profound it spooked me. I'd done some reading by then on neurotransmitters, and I wasn't entirely comfortable with the notion that human laughter is, at bottom, a chemical phenomenon. After hearing from several friends how much more relaxed I looked, some whip-wielding inner Puritan took over and convinced me that I should throw away my pills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIVING THE PHARMACEUTICAL LIFE | 9/29/1997 | See Source »

Watching a movie is a consensual act of sadomasochism. Sado: the people making the film are going through torture to entertain us. Maso: they are also torturing us with the whip of seductiveness and the clamps of suspense. In most films this unholy relationship is tacit; we suspend disbelief, forget our connivance in the covenant. The Game yanks this affair center screen and dares the viewer not only to think about it but also to feel it--feel creepy, feel scared, feel guilty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: THESE JOKERS ARE WILD | 9/22/1997 | See Source »

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