Chili and a record-executive friend (Uma Thurman) try to wrest the contract of a hot young singer (Christina Milian) away from her falling-into-the-gutter managers (Harvey Keitel and Vince Vaughn).

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Afro-centric rap, gutter rap, jazzy rap and educational rap all in one 60-minute segment, I remember when you had to have skills to be put on as an emcee.

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However, people within the system loved Dodd because he was the one who dragged the formerly above-it-all AAU down to the gutter to maximize making money off of kids.

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With three more weeks to Pennsylvania's primary, Clinton challenges Obama to gutter-ball politics, Democrats still can't figure out what to do with Michigan and Florida, John McCain draws up a listed possible running mates.

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And vocals, bathed in old-school reverb, that lift Waits out of the gutter long enough for him to channel the ghost of some long-dead early rock idol.

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When Ms. Nassauer saw a twisted old rain gutter, she proposed running it along a dining-room wall to hold wine bottles.

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Cleans up to a 30-foot section of gutter in 5 minutes on average.

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The drip from a plugged gutter tapped heavily, like a bully nagging for attention, on the wooden cover of a cellar-window well.

NEWYORKER: Outage