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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gets his kicks by leaving a bag of flaming feces at a neighbor's door, saying the F word in a roomful of first-graders, mocking a stuttering boy. As a clumsy hockey player in Happy Gilmore, Sandler kills his dad with an errant slap shot. The films' running gag is of an innocent bystander getting clobbered by a sharp object. Pain is funny, if it's not yours. And the star can do anything, because he's our guy. In short, an Adam Sandler comedy is very like an early Jim Carrey comedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sandler Happens | 11/23/1998 | See Source »

...exactly a repetition of DEWEY BEATS TRUMAN, but the European edition of USA Today did seem to suggest an election outcome that was at some divergence with how things actually played out. Unless this was one of those gag newspapers that somebody printed to razz Newt Gingrich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Political Watch | 11/16/1998 | See Source »

...background chokes out basic chords with an simple Natalie Imbruglia-esque rhythm as Morrissey churns out such drivel as "I danced myself out of the womb...Is it strange to dance so soon?....What's it like to be a loon?... I liken it to a balloon." Gag. Is Morrissey washed...

Author: By Eliot Schrefer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Twenty-First Century Still Breathing Down Morrissey's Neck | 10/2/1998 | See Source »

...question that nervous web journalists are asking now is whether there should have been a gag order in the first place. Broder, not surprisingly, says no. "This wasn't a disagreement over a hiring or firing," he says. "This was a principled journalistic decision... I voted with my feet." But not before Talbot, who could not be reached for comment, took one more shot at keeping Broder muzzled. According to Broder, Talbot made Broder's severance package conditional on a promise that Broder say nothing more on the subject. Broder says he thought about it. "Then," he says, "I told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Salon-ic II | 10/2/1998 | See Source »

William Kaminsky '98, who took Physics 125 lastfall, told Hahs that Doyle was the initiator ofthe CUE gag, and had duped The Crimson intoprinting Fireloins' opinions on campus issues inthe past...

Author: By Andrew K. Mandel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Physicists Invent New Nutty Professor | 9/28/1998 | See Source »

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