Word: bard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Could there be poetic justice for the bard of black humor? Yes, and of a kind he might have appreciated. Sam Kinison, the frenetic comedian whose very mildest joke was a recommendation that his audience "drink and drive," was killed in California last year when a 17-year-old with a lot of beer cans in his vehicle smashed into Kinison's car. Witnesses said the teen surveyed the carnage and woozily exclaimed, "God! Look at my truck!" As for Kinison, a former Pentecostal minister turned scourge of all things decent, he seemed to be in an urgent discussion with...
Wharton was a poet of repression. Another New Yorker, Martin Scorsese, is the bard of belligerence, the ace depictor of raging bulls. What could Wharton mean to Scorsese? Everything, it turns out: his faithful adaptation of The Age of Innocence (written with Jay Cocks, a TIME contributor) is a gravely beautiful fairy tale of longing and loss...
...Fortunes of War), he is still a young man in a hurry. His ambition is the best thing about him. Having directed the box-office success Dead Again, he confidently grabs some mogul by the Armani lapels and says, Mickey-and-Judy style, Let's put the Bard on right now! And put lots of pretty young people in it. Even Americans -- they can learn their lines phonetically. And we'll photograph them in loving slow-mo while they bathe naked. This is a play about star quality, so we'll do it in movie-star close...
...Philip Bard of Phil's Towing says his company tows an average of 400 cars each month because of street cleaning...
...curtain, Sting dares the listener to "Pick my brain, pick my pockets/ Steal my eyeballs and come back for the sockets/ Run every kind of test from A to Z/ And you'll still know nothing 'bout me." It's a fittingly elusive coda from pop's most mercurial bard...