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...year-old library has been the butt of jokes since chips and chunks began falling from its massive brick facade shortly after it opened in Amherst. The fallout got so bad that it was ordered closed for a semester in 1979 and has seen limited use since...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UMass to Honor Mugabe; Students Fix Up Library | 9/27/1986 | See Source »

When was the last time you thrilled to the romantic escapades of Overcoat Junction? How can your life be complete without watching at least one episode of The People's Court Martial? How about the wild and wacky antics on Saturday Night Censored? A rifle butt in the head to anyone who doubts the unbridled creativity of Soviet...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: TV Guideski | 9/25/1986 | See Source »

...army adjutant told the court that he saw Jeremie kill an eight-year-old boy by striking him in the temple with the butt of his pistol. Choking back tears, the defendant protested: "I couldn't hurt a child. They call me 'Papa Jere' in Leogane." Another witness stripped off his shirt in court to exhibit six bullet wounds he suffered in the demonstration. "Jeremie says he is everybody's father," he snapped. "When did you hear of a father shooting his son? He shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haiti Papa Jere | 5/26/1986 | See Source »

...sleep, get up, load and drive. The highest-paid acts--whole family troupes that shoulder chores across the board, from flying high to walking nags--get $2,400 a week, in cash, each Sunday, payday. The lowest-level pay is $75 a week. Seventy-five, incidentally, is what the butt of the ancient joke, the kid who tidies after the elephants, receives. It may be the arts, but at Carson & Barnes it means disposing of twelve fragrant cubic yards a day. James K. Judkins, general manager of the circus, started this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Oklahoma: a Big Top Moves Out | 5/12/1986 | See Source »

...pretty awful about the whole thing, seeing as it was his fault that Lilly ever got to touch the now stiffening unicorn in the first place. So with the help of a somewhat lustful fairy queen, the forest knave acquires the requisite set of used armor and hauls his butt over to a humungous oak tree, which serves as Evil's headquarters. His main goal is to save his girlfriend and the last remaining unicorn in the universe, both of which have been captured by the forces of darkness. If he fails, the sun will never rise again...

Author: By Jeff Chase, | Title: Guys and Trolls | 4/25/1986 | See Source »

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