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...Lipstick Queen Invisible Liner This clear lip liner works with every skin tone and any shade of lipstick. The twist-up pencil creates a smooth barrier that prevents lipstick from bleeding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Insider's Top 10 Picks For Fall | 9/13/2009 | See Source »

What does it take to steal a Rembrandt? Surely one must divert the museum guard’s attention, disable alarms, twist through zigzagging lasers and plan a smooth escape. At least so it would seem from art heist films like “The Thomas Crown Affair.” But, according to the infamous art thief Myles J. Connor, Jr., all you really need is the audacity to stride into a museum during open hours, grab a painting, and run like hell...

Author: By Antonia M.R. Peacocke, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Harvard Job | 9/11/2009 | See Source »

...same scientist whose invention of a giant "brain" machine lead to the ruin of man. The filmmakers refer to these as "stitchpunk creations," but in the interest of plain English, we're opting for the term doll. Hand-stitched from either burlap or canvas, the dolls have smooth, rounded heads and protuberant eyes; they look like early aviators. They are both homespun and spooky, like the kind of child's toy that might be purchased at an all-organic boutique and cause nightmares until it is ultimately whisked off to Goodwill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Movie 9, Technology Ruins the World ... Again | 9/10/2009 | See Source »

...Timbaland-produced tracks mostly serve as filler that only distract from the main attraction.Luckily, the scrappy kid from Bed-Stuy hasn’t been completely put to rest, as evidenced on “Already Home,” featuring Kid Cudi. Jay-Z’s normally smooth, swaggering vocals veer towards ragged exasperation while he rebuffs his critics’ futile attempts to render him irrelevant: “But really the fact is, we not in the same bracket, / Not in the same league, don’t shoot at the same baskets, / Don?...

Author: By Roxanne J. Fequiere, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Jay-Z | 9/10/2009 | See Source »

...reefer he so loose / He’s five foot seven / A legend was born / Russel Ason Jones / I know him for his braids and lessons,” raps Kwon almost breathlessly over J. Dilla’s soulful beat.More often, though, Raekwon’s smooth tenor creates a sensational contrast to his narrative persona; Chef Raekwon derives the first part of his name for his skills in cooking crack, and his raps are generally vignettes portraying the ultra-violence of the streets and the drug trade. “Fat Lady Sings,” for example...

Author: By Joshua J. Kearney, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Raekwon | 9/10/2009 | See Source »

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