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That aging barb about the venerable Hollywood talent agency and its notoriously low profile may no longer apply. In purchasing the smaller, hipper and younger Triad agency, with 50 agents and its own show-biz clients, the Morris agency pulled off a snazzy triple play. With new talent such as screen stud Bruce Willis and hot-shot musicians Pearl Jam and the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Morris instantly juices up its soft film and music divisions, raises its celebrity quotient and re-establishes its place on the top tier of Tinseltown's talent brokers, along with International Creative Management (which...
...human nature, but people sure seem to enjoy having a common object of ridicule. Harvard of course is no exception. P.C. had its day, until people realized how few truly P.C. individuals they actually encountered. The Society of Nerds and Geeks used to be the butt for many a barb, but heaping scorn on them is now considered passe. Besides, only the truly meanspirited could be harsh on a group so willing to go through self-deprecation at a campus where students take themselves far too seriously...
...True," the female vocalist, Barb Morrison, joins Dito. Instead of constant noise, more ethereal moments alternate with heaviness--offering the listener a much needed respite. One wonders, however, whether the band repeats the line "Is it something that I can change" 10 or so times at the song's end because 1) it says so much about existential angst that it merits repetition of 2) because they sought to fill time. (I chose...
...apparent dog-fight between Bill Clinton and Paul Tsongas degenerates into barb-trading and negative campaigning, they've begun to ignore real issues...
...over by the likes of people named Big Lou. It would not surprise anyone to learn that a certain Big George laces himself into the accordion harness and knocks out a couple of choruses of Boola Boola when he can't find a friend to pitch horseshoes with. Big Barb wears the earplugs. (So do the Secret Service people, though for security reasons those little things in their ears are called radio receivers...