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...after Anna Nicole’s death, I was bombarded with her story by every major news network and I, too, began to care about the buoyant blonde from Texas. All forms of media rushed to fill me in on the trailer-trash tragedy and I was able to devour the details through television, Internet, and magazine at my leisure. The book world was quick to follow—within the next two months, there will be a reissue of her 1996 biography “Great Big Beautiful Doll” in trade paperback and a release...

Author: By Madeline K.B. Ross, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Trashy Celeb Lit Abounds | 2/22/2007 | See Source »

...Christmas. But this isn’t one for the young ’uns; in this take on holiday lore, Santa, according to the Orphans’ website is “a man who, after hundreds of years of back breaking public service, has been driven to devour more than just a plate of stale cookies!” Check it out at the Machine Theater (normally a gay nightclub...

Author: By Stephen M. Fee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Get Out! | 12/13/2006 | See Source »

...have to eat or die," one deserter tells them - the kids are to be killed, cooked and eaten. That fate befalls Mischa (who, at two, is oddly thought to have more meat on her than her eight-year-old brother). Hannibal must watch as the brutes boil and devour her; he faints away, and when he comes to he does not speak for five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Becoming Hannibal Lecter | 12/11/2006 | See Source »

...quickly devour my lunch at my desk. Very few people here have the time to take an actual lunch break...

Author: By Shannon E. Flynn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Goldman Sachs Girl | 10/4/2006 | See Source »

...explicate his marriage, he weaves together two threads: "Bible and brain." God blessed them with five children in eight years of marriage. A big family, Rusty says, was going to be their "adventure in life." But, he explains, "the Bible says the devil prowls around looking for someone to devour. I look at Andrea, and I think that Andrea was weak"--not morally weak but chemically weak, her resistance to evil lowered by mental illness. "Think about a field of deer, and there's one limping around, and that's kind of the way I see it. Andrea was weak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Yates Odyssey | 7/26/2006 | See Source »

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