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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...demanding. Calling Wilson a "blind, deaf Don Quixote" and Clemenceau a xenophobe with "one illusion--France, and one disillusion--mankind" (and only at the last moment scratching the purple prose he had reserved for Lloyd George: "this goat-footed bard, this half-human visitor to our age from the hag-ridden magic and enchanted woods of Celtic antiquity"), an outraged Keynes prophesied that the reparations would keep Germany impoverished and ultimately threaten all Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Economist JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...auteur hag," says his friend director John Waters, and Depp's longtime agent, Tracey Jacobs, agrees. "It all starts with the screenplay," she says, "not the bottom line. Then he chooses directors and actors he likes." Among them--twice, including Depp's upcoming directorial debut, The Brave--is Marlon Brando, another instinctive actor, who almost certainly would have preferred a hide-in-plain-sight career like Depp's to the one he got. Depp, now 33, was lucky. He was given his shot at mainstream studdishness early on and blew it off fast. That was after he scored his first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEPP CHARGE | 3/3/1997 | See Source »

...Jerky Boys' new film, "The Jerky Boys," features music and appearances by more big names than their underground appeal might be thought to merit, ya big hag. But Brennan tells how a couple of schmoes from the City achieved recognition with the stars. "Alan Arkin's sons knew about us," he says, "and Tom Jones--his son and his grandchildren were into...

Author: By Daniel Altman, | Title: Jerky Boys Called on Their Pranks | 2/16/1995 | See Source »

...sample of the wide variety of nicknames his roommates have created for him: Well, the ones that rhyme with my last name are: Jetlag, Barf-bag, Old Hag, Zig Zag (a roommate walks in, saying: "What's up, Leftbag?"), Saddlebag, Teabag, Trashbag... and of course the ones that rhyme with my first name: Odd, Sod, Mossad, Facade, and Re-todd. That's just about all we can probably print, and I have no idea what "Leftbag" means...

Author: By Jonathan A. Bresman, | Title: Profile | 2/16/1995 | See Source »

...spends a good portion of the The Frog Prince rolling his eyes. As the prince, he dispenses scads of flowery phrases he obviously does not believe or even understand. Dawson's facial expressions and zingy one-liners provide much of the play's humor. After his confrontation with the hag, he declares, "I've got just one thought to leave you with: Monarchy!" When the hag first demands the flowers from him, he refuses, taunting her with a juvenile, "Tough...

Author: By Adam E. Pachter, | Title: Telling Fairy Tales | 4/13/1990 | See Source »

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