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...show is an unsettling weave of smart-ass wit and surreal situations from the age of terror. A joke involving communion and oral sex shares a platform with the calculation that al-Qaeda would have to blow up 580 planes a year to compete with the tobacco industry for casualties. This month, an audio version of the show, which has shocked Christian conservatives and delighted fans from Edinburgh to Lahore, was launched on iTunes. E-audiences might miss the comedian's crown of thorns and Gitmo-orange jumpsuit, but that's not dire, as the show, he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comedy of Terrors | 3/26/2008 | See Source »

...Haul ass!” the captain barked as they all scrambled back to the Humvees...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: On Wearing the Right Shoes | 3/18/2008 | See Source »

...until I’m writing “Harvard” on my March Madness bracket, Harvard recruits can kiss my ass...

Author: By D. PATRICK Knoth, STAFF WRITER | Title: Hate It: Athletic Recruiting | 3/11/2008 | See Source »

...When the muscular punk Ponyboy rides his bike through the desert, Bock welds the character’s vocabulary together with an acute sense of the details of Las Vegas’ man-made oasis of asphalt and neon: “Ponyboy’s style was hauling ass, blazing through the smoldering afternoons, pedaling like hell over blacktop that had steam rising in waves above it.” The style can be fun to read and often pulls off some impressive verbal pyrotechnics, but these are often nullified when Bock gives too much to the reader. When...

Author: By David S. Wallace, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ‘Beautiful Children’ Stuck in Loop | 3/7/2008 | See Source »

...ass tired!" Bette Midler chirps as she rides onto the gigantic Caesars Palace stage astride a donkey. In THE SHOWGIRL MUST GO ON, the 62-year-old chantootsie often declares that she's exhausted, yet in her sharp 90-min. act, she seems ageless and indefatigable--strutting, singing, hopping around in a fish tail, cavorting under a 3,200-lb. (1,450 kg) headdress of pink feathers. Showgirl, a slick $10 million production, replaces Cline Dion's elephantine extravaganza with the unique Midler mix: sass, heart and a show-biz salesmanship that's been irresistible since her early days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's De-Vegas, She's Divine | 2/29/2008 | See Source »

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