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...nails his penis to a board and calls it art. Yet Bob Flanagan, masochist with a cause, might win the sympathy of any stony conservative, for he was one of the longest-lived survivors of cystic fibrosis, a lung disease that takes most of its victims in childhood. His daft wit even turned his affliction into a Mary Poppins-style ditty: "Supermasochistic Bob has cystic fibrosis/ He should've died when he was young, but he was too precocious.../ A lifetime of infection and his lungs all filled with phlegm/ The CS would have killed him if it weren...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: NOT SO SICK | 11/3/1997 | See Source »

...songs as Forever Yellow Skies and The Rebels, singer Dolores O'Riordan howls and the guitars rage. Yet O'Riordan remains a terrific crafter of melodies, and a prettiness sparkles beneath the surface of her most raucous songs. The one problem is that the lyrics are sometimes a bit daft: I'm Still Remembering pays tribute to Kurt Cobain in one couplet and, in a loopy segue, lauds John F. Kennedy in the next. Perhaps O'Riordan should watch more C-SPAN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: CIVIL PROTESTS | 5/13/1996 | See Source »

...June 14 on him. With only seven weeks left to find a smoking gun, D'Amato called fresh prey to the stand: former Clinton chief of staff Betsey Wright. As Libby, the most vivid supporting character in Primary Colors, Wright was portrayed as a wild-eyed, foul-mouthed, daft Dustbuster, so excitable that much of her dialogue in the book is in capital letters. In real life, she was the inadvertent author of the memorable "bimbo eruptions" line and could often get emotional when defending her boss. But last Thursday Wright calmly turned the tables on her inquisitors. Asked about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WASHINGTON DIARY: STARR WARS | 5/6/1996 | See Source »

...when MST3K made its network debut, so did the Kids in the Hall, the Toronto quintet noted for their daft, deadpan playlets about modern domesticity--and for their fondness for women's frocks. From these five young men (David Foley, Bruce McCulloch, Kevin McDonald, Mark McKinney and Scott Thompson) now comes the inevitable feature film, Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy. This movie, borrowing the plot of the 1951 Alec Guinness comedy The Man in the White Suit; is about a "happy drug" that makes everyone miserable. Bad news for the Kids: the movie (directed by Kevin Makin) will have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: DON'T TAKE CANDY FROM KIDS | 4/22/1996 | See Source »

...multi-layered elements among middle-class and blue-collar blacks that were the overwhelming presence at the Million Man March are not likely to become tools or puppets of black extremists; they are not politically daft," Kilson wrote...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Releases New Race Relations Book | 3/12/1996 | See Source »

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