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Social and cinema history back him up. The first great movie epic (The Birth of a Nation) and the first talkie sensation (The Jazz Singer) wallowed in racial derision, personified by white actors in blackface. Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland, Fred Astaire and Bugs Bunny defaced themselves in minstrel cork. Egregious stereotyping can still be heard, most mornings, on Don Imus' and Howard Stern's radio shows--aural blackface. Somebody had to shout, "Enough," and, whaddaya know, it was Spike...
...that young man with a bottle of cheap, celebratory Champagne. When he uncorks it, can you guess where the cork is going to fly? And what it must do to the precariously placed urn? If you have a taste for farce...
GORE CONSULTANTS Guys, put a cork in it (except to TIME). You keep making your client look like a mere pawn...
...answer, like the odor, is in the cork. Wooden corks contain microbes that create unpleasant odors, but plastic corks are as classy as Dixie cups. The solution? Zap 'em. Researchers recently discovered that a specially designed microwave oven will kill the offending organisms, leaving corks odorless. Don't try this at home, however. These ovens will be incorporated into the wine-production process...
...Heard: “Man, I destroyed the cork on my Birks and have to get them re-caulked...meet me in Lowell at 4:20...I have to go to Newbury Comics to buy the latest Phish CD...” OR “God, I hate Patagonia—my Northface fleece is so much doper than that shit...I’m going to a hip hop concert later at the B-Side Lounge. Wanna come?...I snagged my Stussy pants on my longboard today. It was the worst...