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...networks are very fond of these low-budget reality shows, but one downside is that they distort reality for viewers whose only moral and educational influence is television. People who really want to be on TV might try to submit a video to air on "America's Funniest Home Videos," but would readily settle for a spot on "America's Most Wanted" instead...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: Low-Budget American Realism | 9/26/1991 | See Source »

...John Salvatore), who performs an interpretive dance called "The Seven Ages of Me," Pageant is all about ego and the denial of self -- about the eagerness of Americans to let others, even a cosmetics manufacturer, define what will make them feel lovelier and more loved. It is + also the funniest spectacle in or outside a cabaret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Come to The Cabaret! | 8/12/1991 | See Source »

...Rourke, one of America's funniest writers and potentate of gonzo journalism, tried to find how the U.S. government works. His not-so-startling conclusion: it doesn't. Yet O'Rourke, an unabashed conservative with libertarian leanings, tells you why government is a flop in a way no civics textbook ever could. "I'm not sure I learned anything," he writes, "except that giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Deficit Of Laughs | 7/8/1991 | See Source »

...Bergman, Bunuel, Kurosawa, to create "true literature." On those occasions when he stops scaling Olympus and makes a popular comedy-drama such as Annie Hall or Hannah and Her Sisters, he feels a little cheap, like the Whore of Mensa (the main character and title of one of his funniest short stories) -- as if he has undersold his gifts to win easy acclaim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pulp From The Woodpile | 6/10/1991 | See Source »

Campbell has known Bush since the early 1970s. A man who can spin some of the funniest shaggy-dog stories ever heard around a cracker barrel, he has the shoes-up-on-the-coffee-table style that the President likes. More important for a campaigner, he's a relaxed and confident speaker in public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Five Who Fit the Bill | 5/20/1991 | See Source »

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