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...agree with his answers, you can't help but admire his way of putting things. He has a real knack for producing fortune-cookie phrases that pass for universal truths in his world: "Money is harder to find than a true blonde," and "Success is just a fool's word for survival." These wisdom-bites accumulate and form an actual weltanschaung--bleak but authentic. Jimi emerges as a megaphone for the Generation we all know as X, a generation overeducated and underemployed by today's working world...

Author: By Judy E. Dutton, | Title: `Technicolor' Loser Nothing More Than Pulp | 3/3/1995 | See Source »

Suddenly he sits up straight and gets an edgy look about him, as if a practical joke is in progress, and he's determined not to play the fool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GREAT SIMOLEON CAPER | 3/1/1995 | See Source »

...business.'' The more Sporkin learned about Microsoft in hearings that began last fall, the less he liked the settlement that Gates and Bingaman had worked out and the role that he, as the reviewing judge, was being asked to perform. "I will not be played for a fool," he warned during a heated session last month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIPPING UP THE TITAN | 2/27/1995 | See Source »

Donnelly also gives an impressive performance as Jimmy Jack, the Fool counterpart to Dennehy's Lear. Campbell is affecting as the spurned Manus, especially in his heartbreak at finding Maire with George...

Author: By Marc R. Talusan, | Title: Broadway-Bound Translations Gets Lost in Its Stars | 2/23/1995 | See Source »

...this moment you must take pause to ask your neighbor what delayed the hockey season, or better yet, "What is hockey?", be my guest. Your questions indicate that you are either a bubbly Beau brummel, fluent in the vampy vernacular of the now, or you are an ignorant fool. Either way I want you on my team...

Author: By Rebecca R. Kirshner, | Title: The Fashion Muse | 2/23/1995 | See Source »

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