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Basically, I learned that women think of sex as some strange form of relaxation therapy instead of as the rigorous sport it's meant to be. Also, I learned that there's nothing in the world funnier than 30 guys licking their palms to see what it feels like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Spicing It Up | 1/19/2004 | See Source »

...Basically, I learned that women think of sex as some strange form of relaxation therapy instead of as the rigorous sport it's meant to be. Also, I learned that there's nothing in the world funnier than 30 guys licking their palms to see what it feels like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spicing It Up | 1/12/2004 | See Source »

...benefactor, whether or not he intended to be, is Bill Clinton, whom the Steps rank first among the funniest people in American history (Dan Quayle is runner-up). Strauss even considers Clinton the second funniest person in world history behind Henry VIII. “How do you get funnier?” he asks. “[The scandals] just went...

Author: By Lily X. Huang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Stepping’ on the Toes of Candidates and Politicos in Sanders Theater | 12/5/2003 | See Source »

...looks eerily like the young James Spader) and mining a comic's deadpan depths. Watch Murray's eyes in the climactic scene in the hotel lobby: while hardly moving, they express the collapsing of all hopes, the return to a sleepwalking status quo. You won't find a subtler, funnier or more poignant performance this year than this quietly astonishing turn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Victory for Lonely Hearts | 9/15/2003 | See Source »

...mistake. Amis is after more than just surface glitz: "After a while, marriage is a sibling relationship - marked by occasional, and rather regrettable, episodes of incest." And: "Women wouldn't mind pornography if reproduction took place by some other means: by sneezing, say, or telepathy." Like a meaner, funnier Updike, his talent finds its fullest expression in sentences so perfect they'll keep you stuck on a single page. It's in the task of making all those dazzling sentences add up to a novel that he sometimes goes astray. Some of the sharpest words concern Clint Smoker's odious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Martin Bites Back | 8/31/2003 | See Source »

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