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Amichai, an award-winning author, made his poetry useful at the Riesman Center at Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel, speaking on "The Soul of the Poet." He called himself "the first post-cynical humorist...

Author: By Marion B. Gammill, | Title: Amichai Speaks at Hillel | 11/8/1991 | See Source »

...WILL ROGERS FOLLIES. Tommy Tune's staging and choreography capture the splash-and-dazzle Ziegfeld extravaganzas of the teens and '20s, and Keith Carradine engagingly replicates the rope-twirling humorist who starred in them. But Will Rogers, the biggest multimedia star of his time, proves of little interest today, and every enduring thing he ever said has long since has been quoted to tedium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: May 20, 1991 | 5/20/1991 | See Source »

...devilish Dennis the Menace grin with the sure shuffle of a frat boy who's dating the homecoming queen, into America's journalistic elite. "He's got the hyperactivity of Hunter Thompson but with a less fried brain," says drinking buddy and political commentator Bob Beckel. Adds friend and humorist Dave Barry: "He's outrageous, and I like that. In the age of political correctness, I think it's good to have somebody who does that." O'Rourke's writing is driven by a practiced wit, a brilliant use of analogy, and a hard edge capable of offending almost anyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Of Cows, Scuds and Scotch: P. J. O'ROURKE | 4/15/1991 | See Source »

...speakers engaged in a kind of nervous one- upmanship in tribute to God and the G.I. At the Washington Press Club Foundation's big dinner, which Bush did not attend, almost no one dared rib the President. One of the few good laughs of the night came from humorist Dave Barry who, professing evenhandedness after some gibes aimed at White House chief of staff John Sununu, said, "I would now level an equally cheap shot at a high-ranking, influential Democrat -- if there were any." Speaker of the House Tom Foley laughed a little too hard. And on Friday when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: George Was There | 2/11/1991 | See Source »

While filming on location, major stars seem to feel entitled to almost anything they want. When humorist Art Buchwald won a suit against Paramount for using his idea as the basis for the 1988 blockbuster Coming to America, court documents showed that the studio had treated America star Eddie Murphy very well indeed. Among other things, Murphy enjoyed the services of a valet, a physical trainer and a $2,000-a-week chauffeur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shooting The Works Lights! Camera! Money! | 5/21/1990 | See Source »

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