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Such jokes -- delivered, as all her slings are, with a great guileless smile -- fulfill the tradition of the defiant female wit, alive with innuendo, that stretches from the Wife of Bath to Belle Barth. They also tend to obscure Midler's unique talent. Yes, she coos bedroom ballads like Long John Blues; sure, her charts tease five decades of popular music with the wink of parody. But her laser-precise technique is no counterfeit of feeling. It is the art of the Method singer, who approaches a song as an actor does his text: finding the heft of a melodic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bette Midler Steals Hollywood | 3/2/1987 | See Source »

While these battles over access are waged, correspondents struggle to fill their notebooks with anything more than rumor or innuendo. They follow a well- trodden path to the contra offices in a sprawling bungalow on the outskirts of Tegucigalpa. The spokesperson is charming but uninformative. On a good day, a journalist might run into Contra Leaders Adolfo Calero or Enrique Bermudez, but they are not always forthcoming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: The War That No One Can Cover | 2/16/1987 | See Source »

Amerika's sexual innuendo and Dukes of Hazard pace will attract plenty of attention to its rabidly nationalist message. The show certainly didn't go looking for the threat of a U.N. law suit to attract even more attention. The U.N. was happy to provide the threat of a law suit--and probably a Nielson boost--anyway...

Author: By Michael D. Nolan, | Title: The U .N. v. Amerika | 2/12/1987 | See Source »

...cases as the illicit profiting from information about private corporate behavior before that knowledge has reached the public domain. It has been compared to playing poker with marked cards. But deciding when the cards have been improperly marked -- and, above all, proving it -- is no mean feat, since rumor, innuendo and split-second inference are the stuff of ordinary stock trading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going After the Crooks | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

...another decision last week, the court gave a narrow interpretation to the First Amendment in a case involving the suspension of a student who gave a speech colored by sexual innuendo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sex Busters | 7/21/1986 | See Source »

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