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...KNOWLEDGE 69% Percentage of Americans who can name current Vice President Dick Cheney; 74% could name the Vice President in 1989 21% Percentage of Americans ages 18 to 29 who cited The Daily Show and Saturday Night Live as regular sources of election news...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 4/19/2007 | See Source »

...also, curiously, the record of a pair of very hard-working crooks. Gere, as Irving, and Alfred Molina, as Dick Susskind, his timorous but devoted research assistant, probably put as much effort into researching their fake book as they would have for an authentic one. Since all biographies and autobiographies are in some sense fictional constructs, it could be (cynically) argued that their product was probably no less authentic than more respectable entries in the field. Indeed, in the aftermath of their effort, Irving has often insisted that theirs was a terrific book. Whether or not that's true, both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Imperfect Trio: The Hoax, Fracture and Perfect Stranger | 4/13/2007 | See Source »

...Clockwork Orange,” and “McCabe and Mrs. Miller.” His latest project is a book detailing the early days of his career, called “White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s,” which opens with Dick Clark taking the helm of a show called “American Bandstand.”“We hated Dick Clark,” Boyd says. “That’s when I started listening to old jazz and blues, looking for wackier stuff.” Boyd argues...

Author: By Beryl C.D. Lipton, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Legendary Producer Reveals His Secrets | 4/13/2007 | See Source »

...distinctions more openly, frankly and daringly than before. It used to be assumed that people were free to joke about their own kind (with some license for black comedians to talk about how white people dance). Crossing those lines was the province of the occasional "socially conscious artist," like Dick Gregory or Lenny Bruce, who was explicit about his goals: in Bruce's words, to repeat "'niggerniggernigger' until the word [didn't] mean anything anymore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Imus Fallout: Who Can Say What? | 4/12/2007 | See Source »

...Talk About Books You Haven’t Read,” he candidly admits to having lectured on books he has never read. I always knew that most of the class hadn’t read “Moby Dick,” but I never thought to ask whether my prof had.Bayard’s book is in some ways a higher brow cousin of CollegeHumor.com’s “Faking It,” a manual for how to talk about things, specifically books, about which you are ignorant...

Author: By Madeline K.B. Ross, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: You’ve Read ‘Gravity’s Rainbow’? Bullshit | 4/6/2007 | See Source »

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