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Weather is only the icing on the not-so tasty cake. This month has been one full of family stress, lack-of-girl-friend woes and a general feeling of blah. To elaborate slightly more on "blah": February has sucked the emotion from my soul...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The February Blahs | 3/1/1996 | See Source »

...returned to the game last year, the original M.J. felt somewhat wistful. And as Earvin III grew older, Earvin II found another, compelling reason to return. Says Magic: "My son had heard from other fathers that his daddy was a great player but he couldn't play no more, blah, blah, blah. Now he'll get a chance to experience my playing, and he won't have people telling him--or myself telling him--that I couldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MAGIC JOHNSON: AS IF BY MAGIC | 2/12/1996 | See Source »

...answer to the Ayatollah can be found in his children's story Haroun and the Sea of Stories, published soon after The Satanic Verses. In this story, a renowned and persecuted story-teller is given two opposing nicknames: some call him the Ocean of Notions, others the Shah of Blah. The same dichotomy can be seen in Rushdie. His political significance has less to do with his writing than it does with his continued existence, the living hero of a sometimes abstract cause. We read Rushdie, though, because in his work larger forces--the forces we imagine to be somehow...

Author: By David J.C. Shafer, | Title: Rushdie Stuns with Last Sigh | 2/1/1996 | See Source »

...fair, four or indifferent--I wouldn't wish that on her. Barnard exemplifies the have your-cake-and-eat-it-too admissions paradox in the worst way. Whole forests of trees are slaughtered yearly to disseminate its admissions propaganda about attending to the particular needs of women, blah blah blah...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Admissions Process Is Flawed | 4/19/1995 | See Source »

...cheesy level of political debate today has favored the party on the attack, it being easier to plant fear and confusion than to explain why blah blah blah really means blah blah, as shown in diagram 4A (see footnote on page 495), which helped elect a lot of Republicans running against Big Gummint. On Election Night, I almost swallowed my gum when Senator Dole said, in an interview, "There are some things that government does well," something that no Republican has uttered in years. A man who has spent 34 years in the Federal Government must have been surprised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A MOST UNFLATTERING SHOW | 3/13/1995 | See Source »

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