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...trouble is, his insights aren't all that original or funny. Like: "You become a little team ... Your partner becomes the one person in the world you can go over to and say, 'Do I have anything in my nose?"' Actually, Reiser is funnier with stuff like how dumb fish are. "They don't see that whole pattern. Worm/death. Worm/death. I would catch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Take These Books, Please | 11/7/1994 | See Source »

Local villagers interviewed by TIME said they have suffered for years from the effects of petroleum pollution. "The river used to have lots of fish," said Vyacheslava Topova, who lives in Kolva, a river town in the region. "Now there are hardly any fish at all, and when we cook them, they smell bad. People here survive, but they are really worried about the future." This spill may be cleaned up by spring, as Bibikov insists. But unless Russia overhauls its aging, corroding pipelines, they will keep springing leaks and spoiling the landscape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Rivers Ran Black | 11/7/1994 | See Source »

...hand of the poor and needy" -- quite apart from any "abomination" (16: 49-50). Amos addresses the rich people of Bashan, who "oppress the poor, which crush the needy," thundering that "the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fish-hooks" (4: 1-2) (which puts even "necklacing " in a new perspective...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Remember the Sermon on the Mount? | 10/31/1994 | See Source »

...financing got better, and yea, became exceedingly multitudinous on the whole earth. And the voice of comedy became a babble (or babel), impossible to characterize. But there was "Trading Places" and "48 Hours" and "When Harry Met Sally" and "Beverly Hills Cop" and "Ghostbusters" and "Metropolitan" and "A Fish Called Wanda" and "The Player" and "Bob Roberts" and more beyond number and counting. But you've seen all of those, I'm sure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Let There Be Comedy | 10/29/1994 | See Source »

Brecht's parable on the mutability of human identity charts the progress of Galy Gay, played expertly by Evan Sandman, who after leaving home to buy a fish becomes tangled up with a bloodthirsty trio of soldiers. The soldiers cajole the gullible Gay into impersonating one of their comrades. As the play continues, Gay absorbs the traits, mannerisms and speech patterns of the soldiers, the last act finds him so fully absorbed in his new identity that he is more murderous than any of them...

Author: By Joyelle H. Mcsweeney, | Title: OF ROBOTS AND MEN | 10/27/1994 | See Source »

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