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Then, just before intermission, a catalytic gale blows in a tousled malcontent called Lovborg (John C. Dewis). He’s brilliant, he’s wry and he’s long been nursing a passion for Hedda. And when he and Hedda butt heads, they touch off a string of events with uniformly tragic consequences...

Author: By Benjamin J. Soskin, ON THEATER | Title: Review: 'Hedda' Fueled by Destruction | 4/26/2004 | See Source »

...portly man who has been suspected of wearing platform shoes and having an unhealthy appetite for movies--and movie stars--can be expected to be the butt of jokes. But North Korea's Dear Leader is no laughing matter. Since his accession to power on the death of his father Kim Il Sung, in 1994, Kim Jong Il has shown that an economic basket case of a state, which at times has been unable to feed its people, and which is brutally authoritarian, can still manage to keep the great powers off balance--so long as it has, or plausibly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kim Jong Il | 4/26/2004 | See Source »

...always conspicuously equipped with a sidearm during official visits, even to kindergartens. His rival is Than Shwe, the top general and archetypal hard-liner. To encourage unity, the Burmese military has always promoted loyalty before brains, and Than Shwe is the result. He is even the thinly disguised butt of a joke in a popular Burmese magazine in which three students are boasting about their uncles. The first says, "My uncle has no arms, but he has swum across the Irrawaddy River five times." The second says, "My uncle has no legs, but he has climbed the Golden Rock Pagoda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stone Age | 4/19/2004 | See Source »

...magazine’s latest edition, lounging around in garter belts and push-up bras with short little quips about what they consider to be their best “personal assets.” “People say my best feature is either my stomach or my butt,” reflected Apprentice contestant and marketing manager Ereka Vetrini. Looks like these girls finally found their perfect...

Author: By Lia C. Larson, | Title: Female Chauvinism | 4/16/2004 | See Source »

Some of Deadwood's strongest insights are about the symbiosis between a racist society and the groups it despises. Take the camp's Chinese cook Wu (Keone Young), who is the butt of slant-eye jokes but has an indispensable role. When someone wants to keep a murder quiet, the corpse is fed--despite the cook's silent disgust--to Wu's pigs. (Which, yes, the townsfolk eat.) Even more essential are the Indians or, as they are dehumanizingly and incessantly called, "the godless heathen c__ksucker Sioux." Although it's two weeks after Custer's massacre at Little Bighorn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: True Grit | 3/22/2004 | See Source »

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