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...distinguished colleague," or to continue a political argument after hours. When cries went up for a list of Capitol Hill check bouncers, House Speaker Tom Foley protected Democrats and Republicans alike, as does the Ethics Committee. So ingrained is the clubbiness that partisanship often seems like a Hulk Hogan spectacle, faked for the C-SPAN audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ultimate Men's Club | 10/21/1991 | See Source »

...lance Chicago detective is tough and sexy and nurturing. She is a teenage waif's very best surrogate mother. She can come on strong to a stud stranger at the local bar; she'll buy him a drink. But Warshawski is faster with a kick than a caress. Any hulk who tries to pummel some manners into her will get his genitals twisted in a nutcracker. And at the end of the new movie named after her, she will offer the same tweaking to her boyfriend. Somebody in V.I. Warshawski has the right phrase for this all-man all-woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Can't A Woman Be a Man? | 8/5/1991 | See Source »

...often looked for inspiration to the world of comic books, usually superhero juvenilia like The Flash or The Incredible Hulk. But TALES FROM THE CRYPT is a different kettle of rotting fish. Based on the seedy old E.C. horror comics, each half-hour episode is a ghoulish black comedy that aims less for thrills or scares than for gleefully evoked squirms. The show, garnering high ratings in its third season on HBO, demonstrates another quality rare in TV: it is improving with age. Introduced by a cackling, skeletal "crypt keeper," the stories barrel along with logic-bending abandon; even when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Gleefully Ghoulish | 7/29/1991 | See Source »

Just across 35th Street stands the forlorn hulk of the original 1910 Comiskey Park, with a gaping hole cut through the right-field stands. A mournful opening-day banner reads, SPEEDWAY WRECKING: THE HARDEST 'HITTER' OF ALL TIME. With these ghostly memories still in sight, how hard it is for the nostalgic baseball fan to come to peace with progress. Yet the truth must be acknowledged: the new Comiskey Park represents a hopeful beacon for the future of baseball. It is a talisman that the wonder of the game will survive this era of luxury sky boxes, insanely lucrative television...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Remaking The Field of Dreams | 4/29/1991 | See Source »

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BUGS: 50 LOONEY YEARS (CBS, May 9, 8 p.m. EDT). And he's never been more popular. Among the celebrators: Bill Cosby, Mary Hart, Hulk Hogan and Porky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: May 14, 1990 | 5/14/1990 | See Source »

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