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...freshmen made a great showing," Cardi said. "After Ravi came out and kicked his opponent's butt, it was smooth sailing from there...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Netmen Tame Notre Dame, 7-2 | 3/18/1988 | See Source »

...book also emphasizes AFSCME's role as a third party that would butt into union talks at Harvard and support its own agenda rather than the best interests of Harvard support staff...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: What Harvard Wants Workers to Know | 2/18/1988 | See Source »

True. Before long, Wilde's mannered dandyism was satirized in Gilbert and Sullivan's Patience, whose immediate success on both sides of the Atlantic earned the intended butt of the joke an invitation to lecture in the U.S. At that point, in late 1881, Wilde had published one slim volume of poems to generally hostile reviews. No matter. New York City newspapers were so avid for a glimpse of this exotic flower that they hired a launch to ferry reporters out to Wilde's ship the evening before its docking. The press discovered plenty to report: a large...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Celebrant of Mixed Motives OSCAR WILDE | 1/4/1988 | See Source »

Beginning with David Letterman and Johnny Carson, the first reaction of many was to make Hart the butt of a national laugh-in. A front-page Des Moines Register cartoon showed Hart wearing a dwarf costume labeled SLEAZY, as he pushed the other six candidates off a cliff. Hart was also tagged by cartoonists as HORNY and RANDY. A popular Denver radio show held an hour-long phone-in of the latest jokes about him, most of which tended toward the tasteless. One caller said the best Hart joke was that "Gary is running for President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ghost Of Gary Past | 12/28/1987 | See Source »

...awful, we were running out of money, and the sets were underwater. It was Apocalypse Now in Malta." Subsequent films were a little like Stardom When? The World According to Garp domesticated John Irving's novel and neutered Williams' wild talent. The Survivors set him up as the butt of a gun-crazy satire. Moscow on the Hudson gave him a Russian accent, at least, but too often the movie went soft, like spun-sugar quicksand. In The Best of Times, Williams went Chaplinesque -- Geraldine, alas, not Charlie -- as a weak geek trying to validate youthful dreams of football glory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Playtime For Gonzo | 12/28/1987 | See Source »

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