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This is a good team, nowhere near as bad as its record would indicate. It plays with heart and busts its butt every minute on the floor...

Author: By John B. Trainer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: An Open Letter to the Team | 2/6/1992 | See Source »

...hermits, bums and permanent invalids. The Rough Diamond, the Consumptive Whore, the bandit who is good to his mother, the epileptic girl who has a way with animals will be the heroes and heroines of the New Age, when the general, the statesman, and the philosopher have become the butt of every farce and satire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fraying Of America | 2/3/1992 | See Source »

...years, American weapons technology was the butt of bitter jokes, taxpayer complaints and congressional investigations. That was before the world watched video footage of U.S. smart bombs threading the eye of Iraq's military needle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best of 1991: Science | 1/6/1992 | See Source »

...Some guys just snuck up behind me and pegged me in the butt as I was setting up for another photo," said Ross. "I guess it's just one of the many occupational hazards of being a journalist...

Author: By George J. Kim, | Title: Snowballs Fly in Yard Melee | 12/7/1991 | See Source »

...Devil's Candy is full of cruel Hollywood wit, and Griffith is a particular butt of the bitch-and-moan. Looking at screen tests that showed bags under her eyes, co-producer Fred Caruso snapped, "Use Preparation H. That'll shrink 'em." Months later when Griffith appeared on the set seemingly with pontoon implants in her breasts, the team sighed again. No one, evidently, suggested Preparation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Goner from the Git-Go | 11/25/1991 | See Source »

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