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...American terms he's a little Clint Eastwood (actor-director), a dash of Gene Kelly (imaginative choreographer), a bit of Jim Carrey (rubbery ham) and a lot of the silent-movie clowns: Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd. Says Chan fan Sylvester Stallone: "Jackie has elongated a genre that had grown pretty stale. He's infused films with humor and character-driven story while giving audiences these extraordinary stunts that are unparalleled anywhere in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JACKIE CAN! | 2/13/1995 | See Source »

...ballerina needs taste and ego and determination. She should be a ham, looking at you and trying to provoke you. Beyond that, the secret is in a fresh way of phrasing, of playing with the music." -MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POINT PERFECT | 2/13/1995 | See Source »

...saved the future Senator's life by dragging the gravely wounded Lieut. Dole across a World War II battlefield. The emotional power was diminished only slightly by a by-product of the show's opening skit: Carafa, like the rest of the audience, was clutching a canned ham...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EYES ON THE PRIZE | 2/13/1995 | See Source »

...idea of a good lunch: May be some pumpernickel and ham or something; a fat sandwich and some corn chips; something breefy, a lot of meat...

Author: By Michelle C. Sullivan, | Title: profile No More Homework Talk | 2/9/1995 | See Source »

...Africans being created innately inferior and for the service of other people is in the Babylonian Talmud. He quoted several doctoral dissertations, one by a Jewish scholar, that supported his claim that the Babylonian Talmud exists as the first text to place a racial component on the cursing of Ham and is the first instance of a work bigoted against Africans in the European tradition. At no time during his address to the participants of the teach-in did Professor Martin make reference to a present day conspiracy by Jews. The statements made by The Crimson's staff, many...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Martin, Clarke Misunderstood | 12/13/1994 | See Source »

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