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...their own politicians, including Deputy Prime Minister Sheila Copps. Says the soft-spoken Assman: "No one's ever really noticed my name before." Unfortunately, so many aspiring wags have now caught on that the 61-year-old had to get an unlisted number in order to cut down on crank calls from people who aren't talk-show hosts. Ah, fame...
...have to crank up the running game," Murphy said. "We are always going to mix the run and the pass--that's our M.O. But we want to get more snaps. We only had 65 against Columbia, and we would like 80. If we can get more snaps, it will be a lot easier to throw...
...Duchamp, artist and gigolo to the rich, who appears to have had a role in the sentimental education of her sister Ettie. (Since Ettie cut many pages from Florine's diaries after her death, one cannot be sure.) Florine's portrait of Duchamp in an armchair, turning a slender crank that raises his invented feminine alter ego Rrose Selavy into the air, is one of the most stylish tributes offered by one American artist to another...
These days washington seems to be filled with white men who make black people uneasy, like Newt the slasher, Bill the waffler and Jesse the crank -- Helms, that is, not Jackson. But the scariest of all the hobgoblins may well be a fellow African American, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. In the four years since George Bush chose him to fill the "black seat" vacated by Thurgood Marshall, Thomas has emerged as the high court's most aggressive advocate of rolling back the gains Marshall fought so hard for. The maddening irony is that Thomas owes his seat to precisely...
Reading jokes bout the famous Harvard crank caller into the same text he cares so much about, Geller switches easily in and out of the worlds he straddles. One minute he's the diligent Jew who wakes up at 7 a.m. for morning services, who organizes the prayer leaders, who worries whether Hillel's dining hall is kosher enough. The next, he's flying a single-engine airplane across the Seattle sky, or dressing in costume, or programming at Microsoft...