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Lest anyone start to coo over this little gem of the movie, Holofcener knows enough to drop a barb or two: driving home from the country house with Amelia and Laura, with the touching soundtrack running full speed, Frank loudly asks whether they're going to have to listen to "this vagina music" the whole ride...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Run (Don't Walk) to This Film | 8/13/1996 | See Source »

...last year for a Senate bill that would transform federal welfare spending into a system of smaller, block grants to the states which would eliminate the safety net of protections for children ? Edelman responded with an "Open Letter to the President" in the Washington Post, complete with the barb: "This is a defining moral litmus test for your presidency." Clinton eventually withdrew his support for the bill. Meanwhile, the percentage of children living in "extreme poverty" (with a family income level less than half the official poverty level) has doubled to 10 percent since 1975. And the public seems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Children's Crusade | 5/31/1996 | See Source »

...then Sittler set up Barb Gordon 2:37 into the extra session for the game-winner...

Author: By David S. Griffel, | Title: W. Hockey Loses Two Up North | 2/21/1996 | See Source »

Forbes' rise in the polls has led to a case of me-tooism among his G.O.P. rivals, several of whom quickly announced their flat-tax plans last week even while attacking Forbes' scheme as favoring, in Pat Buchanan's barb, "the boys down at the yacht basin." Buchanan and Senator Phil Gramm offered single-rate tax plans that would retain the popular deductions for mortgage interest and charitable contributions and would tax investment income. A long-shot candidate, self-made tire magnate Morry Taylor, asks why Forbes would charge him nothing on the $15 million he collected last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IS THIS TAX FLAT UNFAIR? | 1/29/1996 | See Source »

First, Pamela Anderson got a tattoo to advertise her upcoming movie, Barb Wire. Now Nike chairman Phil Knight has his own indelible self-promo. It's a "swoosh"-the Nike logo-on his left ankle. He was needled into it by young bucks at the shoe company, many of whom (no doubt counting on never being fired) also sport swooshes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 26, 1995 | 6/26/1995 | See Source »

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