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...expectations game. True, most of his jokes were chestnuts he no doubt hoarded from ABA conventions, but he effectively tailored them to the event. "What's the difference between a catfish and Ken Starr?" he asked. "One is a bottom-dwelling, scum-sucking scavenger. The other is just a fish." Later he told of a store where an ounce of lawyers' brains cost $75 and an ounce of journalists' brains cost $1 million. The clerk explained the discrepancy: "Do you know how many journalists we had to kill to get an ounce of brains?" Ginsburg had his needle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guy Walks into a Press Briefing... | 11/23/1998 | See Source »

...digital realm--when I first saw the Web, for instance, or entered an online MOO or got a glimpse of streaming video. "This is going to change the world," I babble now, fluttering my hands at the TV screen. "Utterly amazing. My head hurts. Look at that fish! Mommy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foolishly Perfect | 11/23/1998 | See Source »

...single lynx anywhere in the state. People need to make the connection between radicals and the money given to animal-rights groups and left-wing environmental organizations, or we'll see more fires and worse by an emboldened network of ecoterrorists. BURT CAREY, EDITOR Rocky Mountain Game & Fish Marietta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 23, 1998 | 11/23/1998 | See Source »

...framework of upbeat and catchy music, it is often difficult to take the messages of the songs on Why Do They Rock So Hard seriously. Perhaps the inconsistency of the music and the lyrics is a failing, allowing listeners to willfully misunderstand or ignore the meanings that Reel Big Fish are attempting to express. But the inconsistency may also serve to highlight alternative music's disturbing acceptance of conflict. And besides, if Reel Big Fish set their lyrics to appropriately violent music, their songs would not be nearly as much...

Author: By Ruth A. Murray, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: MUSIC JAM | 11/20/1998 | See Source »

Whalers Harpoon Big Fish...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: This Is Not CNN | 11/20/1998 | See Source »

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