Word: bigfoot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While everyone else forced an angle into their act, Hedberg stole the Montreal Festival by standing still and telling jokes. He drawls in a bizarre slacker cadence, delivering lines like "This shirt is dry-clean only. Which means it's still dirty" and "I think Bigfoot is blurry." He keeps his eyes closed and his long bangs flopped over his face. "I don't like to connect with the crowd," he says. "I find if you look at people's faces, you see a disappointed face." In fact, if he goes three or four jokes without a laugh, he starts...
...during his last years in the Senate, have become impatient with his to-run-or-not-to-run act. They don't believe his intellectual quest is leading anywhere. "Is he doing this to improve the nation," asks one, "or just to improve himself?" He reminds them of another bigfoot Democrat who seemed to regard himself as better than the process--Mario Cuomo, the longtime New York Governor, now a lawyer in private practice. Plenty has changed since Cuomo's big moment: Paul Tsongas and Ross Perot have come and gone, and the political truth teller has become just another...
...spectrum, which in San Francisco is the breadth of the Milky Way, Erik Beckjord has formed Drivers Against Bicycle Anarchy. He says drivers will use, if necessary, "the Club, tire irons, pepper spray and baseball bats" as weapons. In saner moments, Beckjord runs the UFO and Bigfoot Museum. Honest...
MARK RICHARD, 58 Sometimes called "Bigfoot"--he is 6 ft. 7 in. and no ectomorph--this Brooklynite is the institutional conscience of the criminal division and the investigation's acting chief. He has spent almost his entire career at Justice and has had a hand in virtually all the department's major international cases: Noriega, Koreagate, Jonathan Pollard and the Nazi prosecutions. After a diagnosis several years ago of esophageal cancer that some surgeons deemed inoperable, he asked his doctors to gamble on a rare medical procedure that saved him. Colleagues gave him a glass-encased cigarette to keep...
That was obvious last week, when a caller, who had earlier provided Bell's Website with a picture of Bigfoot peeking from behind a tree, reported he had seen "a big ball of light coming down" to where the creature had been standing. "So, it's UFO-involved?" asked Bell mildly. The caller thought so but was hazy on the details...