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...scene in Montreal in late July included lots of late-night shots of whiskey, 100 comics being ignored by the public while Emmanuel Lewis (TV's Webster) signed autographs and veteran dork-for-hire comic Kevin Meaney dropped his fake high voice to brag about a development meeting. The business of comedy was summed up by festival standout Mitch Hedberg, who was introduced as a comedian "seen on David Letterman." He said, "Four million people watch that show, and I don't know where the hell they are. I believe more people have seen me at the store. Which would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Funny: The Next Generation | 8/10/1998 | See Source »

...duties are simple: you have an obligation to earn your dinner by asking questions of the person on the right and then listening carefully to the answers. People want to talk about themselves. Sometimes that is even interesting. Keep it light. Don't talk too much. Don't brag. Interview fellow guests as if you were, say, David Letterman or Jay Leno, except without the wisecracks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Monica Who? | 6/22/1998 | See Source »

...middle school yearbook, Kinkel was jokingly voted "most likely to start World War III." "He was really open about making bombs," confides T.J. Harty, 13. "Once he showed me a pipe bomb with a white fuse and said, 'I'm going to blow something up.'" Kip would brag about cutting up cats and squirrels and even claimed to have blown up a cow. Like many local teenagers, he hunted deer, with a rifle his father gave him last year. He seemed to take pleasure in killing. "Other kids say, 'I got a deer,'" recalls Lindsay Parr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Boy Who Loved Bombs | 6/1/1998 | See Source »

Moreover, the admissions office must continue its efforts to broaden the applicant pool in socio-economic terms. Though Harvard like to brag that 70 percent of the student body is on financial aid, this figure is deceptive in that it includes students with loans and outside sources of aid. A full 47 percent of the student body is thus actually defined as "no need" by the Office of Admissions and Financial...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Smugness at the Top | 5/20/1998 | See Source »

...Miami Beach ended with body art and/or disease transmission, keep the stress on the down low by drinking herbal tea, checking in with UHS and never, ever telling Mom. With everyone blubbering about Spring Break mishaps, keep your attitude cool because a snowflake but tattoo is nothing to brag about--that shit don't melt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: groovy train | 4/2/1998 | See Source »

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