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...points a game, Jordan could be headed for his third consecutive scoring title. He has pulled the once dreadful Chicago Bulls into the play-offs four years running and contributed mightily toward rejuvenating a deadly dull league that only seven years ago was being lampooned as the National Buffoon Association. Small wonder some sportscasters call Jordan "Superman in Shorts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Leapin' Lizards! Michael Jordan Can't Actually Fly | 1/9/1989 | See Source »

Parador operates on the no longer fanciful premise that an actor can impersonate a president for a long time, and that however much a buffoon he is, as long as he has charisma, the people will suffer him gladly. When the dictator of Parador dies, his right-hand man (Julia) forces Jack Noah (Dreyfuss), an American movie actor shooting on location in Parador, to assume the role of the dictator to prevent the citizens from finding...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Parador Uber Alles | 9/23/1988 | See Source »

...Metropolis, before it was the Daily Planet, was the Daily Star and then the Evening News. His Luciferian arch-enemy Luthor, the mad scientist who wants to conquer the world, once had red hair, then became bald, then reacquired red hair; in the movies he was played as a buffoon, but now he has turned into a reasonably sane but incurably wicked conglomerate tycoon. Superman is also vulnerable to Kryptonite, the stuff that Krypton was made of, except when he is sometimes not vulnerable to Kryptonite. There is no longer one Superman, in other words, but half a dozen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Up, Up and Awaaay!!! | 3/14/1988 | See Source »

...plots of Lucy's shows were usually kept simple. In addition to the "show biz" skits, each season you could count on seeing the wives making bets with the husbands or on Lucy arguing about money with Ricky or her buffoon banker, Mr. Mooney...

Author: By Jeffrey P. Meier, | Title: Having A Ball | 2/16/1988 | See Source »

...buffoon factor has crippled Mecham's governorship, charges of incompetence and corruption could kill it. Apart from spearheading the change to a 65-m.p.h. speed limit, the Governor's biggest accomplishment to date may be the opening of an Arizona tourism office in Taiwan. Says Republican State Senator Tony West: "Mecham has neglected the day-to-day administration of the government, and a number of his appointments have been catastrophic." Mecham's nominee for a state investigator's post was a former Marine who had been court-martialed twice. The Governor's special assistant went on leave after being charged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Evan Mecham, Please Go Home | 11/9/1987 | See Source »

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