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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Konrad pointed to the recent A-Rod affair—Jeter’s Yankee teammate Alex Rodriguez has repeatedly received verbal barbs from the Red Sox since the opening of baseball spring training camps a week ago—as proof that Red Sox fans should, wink-wink, respect his proposal for a name change...

Author: By Alex Mcphillips, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Alums Bid To Rename Center | 2/28/2005 | See Source »

Your best pick-up line: I don’t use pick up lines. I just smile and wink at people...

Author: By FM Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Scoped | 2/17/2005 | See Source »

...Soon America got to know Johnny -what did I say!? We to know his mannerisms: the wink, which could be mischievous or genially conspiratorial; the spasmodically shrugging shoulders, a la Bogart (one of Carson's favorite and most frequent guests, Don Rickles, said the other night, "I thought he was a football player and the pads were too high"); and the sharp, brittle laugh, which was less an expression of mirth than a cue to the audience that his current guest had passed the test. This ha-ha bark was humanized by proximity to the warmer, manly, practiced guffaw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Whoooooooo's Johnny? | 1/25/2005 | See Source »

...theatre screening a series of classic film noir. One of the characters says, “I feel like we were watching ourselves.” Considering that the two men were hiding out at the theatre after performing a grisly murder, the comment becomes an obviously self-referential wink. Almodovar’s camera lingers on the vampy posters as they leave the theatre, putting the stylistic cap on yet another strange piece of meta-cinema that looks back more to the director’s own earlier work than his recent melodramas Talk to Her and All About...

Author: By Clint J. Froehlich, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Movie Review - Bad Education | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...sponge’s soul, testing his courage and self-identity. At one point, SpongeBob and his starfish friend Patrick can’t stop laughing after someone uses the word “weed.” This was one subversive message I could pick up. Wink. The film reaches its climax on the back of David Hasselhoff, who turns himself into some sort of jet-ski to bring SpongeBob and Patrick back to their home so they can save the day and have a big party. If you’ve recently become a baby mama, step...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Happening | 12/10/2004 | See Source »

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