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...funniest running story yet to cross this desk is an improvement on that prototype. While in Nepal last year, a Harvard Anthro major decided to go for a relaxing little run. However, Bouhda, Nepal had never before been exposed to this exercise form, and when she took off down the main street, the entire village started running after her, thinking there was some sort of emergency...

Author: By Constance M. Laibe, | Title: Weather Report | 4/20/1983 | See Source »

Bitchy Joan Rivers is the funniest woman in America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Barbs for the Queen (and Others) | 4/11/1983 | See Source »

Well, given the competition, probably not, but it is safe to say that her outrageous, bitchy brand of humor has earned her the title of the funniest woman in the country. When she is host of the Tonight show, which she now is more than anyone else except Johnny Carson, she sometimes outdraws the man himself in the ratings. She is one of the few stars who can still pack houses in a depressed Las Vegas; her twelve-city tour in February was an instant sellout; and last week Geffen Records released her first album in years, What Becomes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Barbs for the Queen (and Others) | 4/11/1983 | See Source »

...funniest scenes in Gurney's The Dining Room depicts a pathetically senile matriarch who interrupts Thanksgiving dinner at her own table to announce that it is time for her to get up and go home. Says Gurney's uncle, Buffalo Physician Ramsdell Gurney: "My mother did exactly what Peter had her do in that play. To see her portrayed that way saddened me, but the audience thought it was terribly amusing." The most striking parallel in Gurney's plays to his life is the marriage between the young lovers' parents in The Middle Ages: four years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Elegy for the Declining Wasp | 4/4/1983 | See Source »

...popular years; in syndicated reruns, it has proved so successful that it could outlast the Hundred Years' War. By next Monday, when its 2½-hour send-off episode is aired (8:30 p.m. E.S.T.), M*A*S*H will have earned its stars as one of the funniest, most humane and formally adventurous shows ever to leave its mark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: M*A*S*H, You Were a Smash | 2/28/1983 | See Source »

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