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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bunch opened at Chicago's Annoyance Theater in June 1990 and ran for 14 months to packed houses. This fall it moved to New York City, where it is drawing enthusiastic crowds at that haven of hip, the Village Gate. The audience roars in recognition, laughs at all the dumb lines and sometimes shouts them out before the actors. "We hated the show then and we hate it now," said one recent visitor, "but it's very funny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bunch That Won't Die | 11/4/1991 | See Source »

Trying to look as if he were not eavesdropping, he wrote down practiced insults by old combatants at Darla's bar, in a town called Bazaar. She: "You're so dumb, if you fell in a barrel of tits you'd come up sucking your thumb." He: "You're so ugly we're all hoping that wind don't blow off your clothes." In the same town, he finds the spare, waste-no-words diary of 18-year-old Elizabeth Ann Mardin, a bride newly arrived in Kansas. For June 21, 1862: "I went a goosebarrying in the fore noon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Walking Old Tom's Grand Grid | 10/21/1991 | See Source »

Teri Copley, who once played a blond airhead on the sitcom We Got It Made, isn't exactly a high-profile Hollywood celebrity these days. Still, she had plenty to say on a recent segment of the Maury Povich Show. Povich's subject was the dumb-blond stereotype. Teri was against it. "I get the feeling," said Maury, pondering one of her more heartfelt comments, "that you're into self-awareness big time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Running Off at the Mouth | 10/14/1991 | See Source »

...think the confirmation process, if you want me to go on to that, is a total mess. The Senate Judiciary Committee is ill-equipped to do the job. The Senators ask mostly dumb questions, and they insist on asking questions about how the nominee will vote on such and such an issue, which is entirely improper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Court and Constitution: A Talk with Anthony Lewis | 10/10/1991 | See Source »

Every once in a while a Harvard organization has a cocktail party. This is brownnoser prime time. Note the conspicuous brownnosing laughter that follows the editor/director/producer/president/chair's dumb jokes...

Author: By Gavin M. Abrams, | Title: The Real Rat Race | 9/28/1991 | See Source »

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