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Lucky Lucky Abdullah Ben Bella (Charles Guerrero) is such a lucky Arabic Algerian that he randomly finds a pair of shoes on the ground that are exactly his size. He is also so lucky that the French imperialist soldiers do not bother trying to kill him--they know he's too lucky to be killed...

Author: By Dvora Inwood, | Title: Sign of the Times | 2/13/1992 | See Source »

...eroticized George and Gracie) but acute lyricists of everyday life. Listen to Abby's riff on pop songs that end with fade-outs ("this attempt to imply that oh yeah, we're a bunch of endlessly creative folks who jam all night"); while Jim explains why he doesn't bother to buy such records ("you really need the feeling of radio luck in listening to pop music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1-900-Aural Sex | 2/3/1992 | See Source »

...been to hockey games here since it opened," Pawloski said. "It doesn't bother me to cheer for Harvard with all the Michigan fans that are here. Had I not been here before, it might have been different...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lost in The Crowd: Crimson Faithful Few, Far Between | 1/6/1992 | See Source »

...booth (between Oil Drilling and Annuities) and had been struck by a remarkable letter from Darryl Zanuck to Marilyn Monroe. It was on 20th Century Fox letterhead, scolding Marilyn for her "completely impractical request" to have a special dialogue director work with her on the set of Don't Bother to Knock (a movie rated "don't bother to see"). "You have built up a Svengali," the letter read in part, "and if you are going to progress with your career and become as important talent-wise as you have publicity-wise then you must destroy this Svengali before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money Angles: Marilyn, My Marilyn | 12/23/1991 | See Source »

...know this script cold. Just change the words "Confederate flag" to "flagrant Confederate" and repeat last spring's controversy. So why bother actually doing the whole rigamarole? There are not a lot of valuable life lessons to be learned here, and we all (claim to) have better things to do than watch history repeat itself--especially when it was a farce the first time around...

Author: By Gary J. Bass, | Title: Duke: Why Bother? | 12/19/1991 | See Source »

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