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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Best Comedy Routine "Who's on First?" by Abbott and Costello...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Of The Century | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...such a simple premise, and Abbott and Costello drive it about 20 ft. into the ground, but "Who's on First?" is not only the century's most famous comedy bit; it's also the best. It's absurdism mixed with the easy pleasure of confusion, and Bud Abbott plays the perfect cool logician to Lou Costello's frustrated inquisitor in this Beckettian farce. RUNNERS-UP "Dead Parrot," Monty Python; "Rope Tricks," Will Rogers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Of The Century | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...that Hollywood has become the foremost promoter of decadence in American society. MATT C. ABBOTT Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 26, 1999 | 7/26/1999 | See Source »

Anaheim (Belcher 3-5) at San Francisco (Brock 5-4), 3:35 p.m. Milwaukee (Abbott 1-5) at Cleveland (Wright 4-3), 7:05 p.m. Pittsburgh (Cordova 1-2) at Detroit (Moehler 5-5), 7:05 p.m. Boston (P. Martinez 11-1) at Montreal (Thurman 1-3), 7:05 p.m. Baltimore (Erickson 1-8) at Florida (Springer 2-6), 7:05 p.m. N.Y. Yankees (Cone 5-2) at Philadelphia (Ogea 3-3), 7:35 p.m. Toronto (Wells 6-5) at N.Y. Mets (Reed 3-3), 7:40 p.m. Tampa Bay (Rupe 1-3) at Atlanta (Glavine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BASEBALL | 6/9/1999 | See Source »

...library was designed by the Boston architectural firm of Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch and Abbott, designers of University buildings including Sever Hall, Memorial Church, the Faculty Club, all the Houses built prior to 1949, many of the Yard dorms, Langdell Law Library and the Biological Laboratories...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Gudrais, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A World of Books All Their Own | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

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