Word: gagged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though it got little respect from the critics, Family Matters was in fact the most delightfully outre comedy on TV, an anything-goes farce with good lowbrow gag writing and snatches of smart parody. But just try to say goodbye. The show's producers, reportedly miffed at CBS, aren't talking to the press. White, 21, who is finishing classes at UCLA and said to be writing screenplays, is incommunicado as well. All are getting ready, no doubt, for the last episode of Seinfeld...
...joke shop doesn't sound like a likely place to find the perfect birthday gift, but Jack's makes present shopping surprisingly easy. Gag gifts include award ribbons proclaiming "1st Prize for Being Young and Horny," "World Champion Stud," and "Part-Time Alcoholic." A collection of "over the hill" merchandise for every age and personality type awaits the insensitive shopper...
WASHINGTON: It's a battle between the forces of free speech and the White House armada -- or so the defendant, Matt Drudge, would like to paint it. Claiming the $30 million libel case brought by Sidney Blumenthal in Washington was a veiled bid to gag his investigative reporting, Drudge said: "I don't know how one goes to begin to fight a lawsuit that's being driven by the highest court in the land." Answer: Use guerrilla-style legal tactics, and hope the case itself will never be heard...
...just how--and why--do we know? First, because the parties in the case, the very people bound by gag orders and rules of grand-jury secrecy, are as hard put as any other human beings to keep sensational information to themselves. Second, however, because they are playing a more complicated game in which leaks have a purpose. They are leaking secrets to advance their cases, color public opinion about their clients and put pressure on other potential witnesses to tell the truth. Not all legal cases are settled in the courts, and while it is not a pretty sight...
...Sega crossed the Balkans--and partisan lines--to set up a Website where Clinton loyalists could leave supportive messages for the President. And the Official Monica Lewinsky Anagrams Page (I Yen Woman Licks; Slick May Win One) expanded its lexicon to include her lawyer, William Ginsburg (Bill Wins? I Gag...