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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...introduction, Director of the Institute of Politics Alan K. Simpson, a former Republican senator from Wyoming, described the comedian as creative and cunning...

Author: By Marla B. Kaplan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Franken Pokes Fun at Harvard, National Politics | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

Last week the comedian JERRY SEINFELD got engaged to the comely JESSICA SKLAR. Will it last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 22, 1999 | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

...Paul Reubens, the comedian who had crafted his bizarre alter-ego of Pee-Wee Herman, Burton found a comrade-in-oddness and the perfect start to work with on this all-important first film. With a story centering around Herman's search for his lost bicycle, Adventure led one on a surreal road trip across the U.S. complete with giant concrete dinosaurs, biker gangs and a memorable rendition of the song "Tequila." One of the sleeper hits of 1985, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure established Burton as a "bankable" director...

Author: By Jason F. Clarke, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Weird, Weird World: A Burton Backtrack | 11/19/1999 | See Source »

...marketing credit cards as comprehensive lifestyle enhancers--complete with celebrity spokespeople such as comedian Jerry Sienfeld and golf star Tiger Woods--rather than just convenient tools of purchase, Manning says credit card companies are hooking more and more young people. Credit card companies, he says, are bringing about a "cultural revolution...

Author: By Scott A. Resnick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Credit Troubles Burden Students | 10/15/1999 | See Source »

...readily admitted that he likes comedian Jerry Seinfeld, who he describes as "irony incarnate," and said people "have to have" a healthy sense of irony...

Author: By Carol J. Garvan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: At Book Reading, Purdy Quietly Denounces Cynicism | 10/12/1999 | See Source »

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