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...pleased with us today," said Noriega, who recently claimed the DuPont Intercollegiate National Clay Court championship. "We played well, and held our serve the entire match...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: Netmen Gored by Toreros, 5-3 | 5/21/1990 | See Source »

...dresses in a rhinestone-studded leather jacket, fills his routines with obscenities and has offended more people than any other stand-up comic since Lenny Bruce. The perfect guest host for NBC's cutting-edge comedy series Saturday Night Live? Well, Andrew Dice Clay may have looked good on paper. But when the Diceman cameth, two performers bowed out, and the show endured perhaps the most tumultuous week in its controversy-filled 15-year history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Saturday-Night Sizzle | 5/21/1990 | See Source »

Leading off for the 17th-ranked Toreros (21-5) will be the sixth-ranked singles player in the nation, Jose Luis Noriega, who is 27-4 in singles action this season and claimed the national championship in the fall with a win in the DuPont Intercollegiate National Clay Court Championship...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: Netmen Open NCAA Tourney Against San Diego | 5/18/1990 | See Source »

Lenny Bruce's triumph was posthumous, and maybe Pyrrhic: because of him, Andrew Dice Clay can make millions reciting dirty nursery rhymes in public. Clay and the other new raunch artists, most of them, are only incidentally subversive. They don't believe for a moment, most of them, what they're saying. Metal musicians are no serious Satanists; their concerts are just theater pieces -- Cats with a nasty yowl. Clay is not the pathetic strutting stud he seems onstage; that's just a character. (Was Jack Benny really stingy? Is Pee-wee Herman really a goony child?) Bruce said what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: X Rated | 5/7/1990 | See Source »

...Because of freedom of expression, comics and musicians can now be as nasty as they wanna be. And nasty is the word. In the erotic masterpieces of literature, sex was an expression of pleasure, and often of love, between equals. Today's sex talk, from Kinison and Clay and the 2 Live Crew, is almost exclusively from the male-pig viewpoint. A woman's role, their line goes, is only to serve and service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: X Rated | 5/7/1990 | See Source »

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