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...person takes Andrew Dice Clay seriously, he's an idiot," said a student at Northeastern who identified himself only as Brian. "He's only a comic and he's doing what he believes in. It's a crude comedy, but no one can stop...

Author: By Jonathan M. Berlin, | Title: Andrew Dice Clay? | 7/13/1990 | See Source »

...little Taiwanese-made American flag to burn in the privacy of your home. Why all this stuff? Because you demand it. While trying to appeal to you with flattery for your intelligence and compassion, direct-mail packages are designed on the assumption that you're a self- indulgent idiot. Even environmental groups destroy thousands of extra trees, sating their members' hunger for superfluous paper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Check Is in the Mail | 4/9/1990 | See Source »

Hwang said he is planning to direct an original adaptation of The Idiot set in contemporary New York in collaboration with Martin Scorcese...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hwang Visits Harvard | 12/7/1989 | See Source »

...struggles to sustain his clan and make sure that his daughters find suitable (meaning Greek) husbands. Gatzoyiannis' death at age 90 provides a classic resolution. Surrounded by his children and grandchildren, he drifts off on old memories. It is a scene that evokes Chekhov and his observation that "any idiot can face a crisis. It is this day-to-day living that wears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Some Kind Of Hero | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

...world is exactly Salman Rushdie's Indian characters passively seat- belted in their flight from Bombay to London, then blown apart by a random, idiot bomb and soon seen pinwheeling down to a soft landing off the English coast -- the England where Kipling comes home to roost and the empire will implode and intermingle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Welcome to The Global Village | 5/29/1989 | See Source »

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