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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Captain Pete Stovell perhaps summarized the change best: "Last year, we had so much talent that we knew we could play half-ass most of the time and win. This year we know we have to work our butts off for everything...

Author: By Sean D. Wissman, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: M. Tennis Begins Anew Today at Yale | 9/25/1992 | See Source »

Sinead shifts gears and plays Big Band crooner on "Secret Love" and kicks Harry Connick Jr.'s ass. Unfortunately, she is not as successful with "Black Coffee," a blues/jazz lament. Lines like "Woman's born to weep and fret/ To stay at home and tend her oven/And drown her past regrets in coffee and cigarrettes" are delivered without irony, which is as shame since O'Connor doesn't believe this song and it shows...

Author: By J.c. Herz, | Title: Sinead: The Bald Soprano Swings | 9/24/1992 | See Source »

Looking me in the eyes and saying that people from cities just can't understand, Bray says, "Hard to wipe your ass with the spotted owl, huh Michelle...

Author: By Allan S. Galper, | Title: The Killing Fields | 9/18/1992 | See Source »

...several dozen strong, gets a free swing at the victim; other times four or five members are assigned to conduct the beating for a set amount of time. Whatever the punishment, the results are strikingly similar. "They give you a head-to-toe, which means you get your ass kicked," says Frank Perez, program director for the Chicago Commons Association gang project...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Way Out | 8/17/1992 | See Source »

...infotainment press is busy stoking the one-way feud. In April, just before Leno replaced Carson, Entertainment Weekly ran a cover story with Hall proclaiming, "I'm gonna kick Leno's ass"; this week the cover copy blares LENO GETS EVEN, and the Gibraltar-jawed comic stares out in a Raging Bull pose. The Washington Post's Tom Shales rags Leno for going "all ponderous and ! stony" and, bizarrely, for overloading his opening monologue with political humor. (Memo to Jay: Better do more 7-Eleven jokes. Memo to Tom: Pssst, it's an election year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bad Boys of Summer | 8/17/1992 | See Source »

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