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...have detractors, who could get more rabid than Lenny ever was. In 1961, comedian Shelley Berman told TIME, "I don't dislike him, but people needed Lenny Bruce for the same reason they needed Hitler." (Hmmm. I don't think Lenny's four-letter word was Jews.) And Jean Shepherd, whom I cherish as a radio monologist, later railed against the Lenny Bruce threat ? of the hip people lording it over the square ? saying it was "a new kind of Jew burning, I think it could lead to a new kind of gas oven." (Goldman, Bruce's biographer, wrote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Tribute to Lenny Bruce | 8/10/2006 | See Source »

...Monestier in the Upper Loire for France's mountainous Cévennes region in 1878, the Scottish poet and novelist spent much of his 220-km walk cursing and goading Modestine, the recalcitrant "she-ass" he'd hired to carry his load. But by the time he reached St. Jean du Gard 12 days later, he'd had a change of heart about his long-eared companion, and the encounters they shared inspired[an error occurred while processing this directive] his memorable account, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Four Legs Good | 8/8/2006 | See Source »

...those who don't savor Ferrell's brand of comic bravura, there are exchanges like this, in which Ricky Bobby - who bleeds red, white and blue while not chugging beer - tries to lap Jean Girard (Sacha Cohen), the gay Frenchman who sips espresso while racing his car, sponsored by Perrier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ferrell, Fast and Funny | 8/6/2006 | See Source »

...Bobby, enchante." "Hey, it's me-America!" Ricky Bobby rams into Jean Girard's bumper. "You have made me spill my Macchiato...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ferrell, Fast and Funny | 8/6/2006 | See Source »

...questioning. But then Guantánamo has more to do with blind revenge and the display of unlimited power than with obtaining justice. The best way for Americans to fix Gitmo would be to close it and return Guantánamo Bay, a remnant of colonial imperialism, to Cuba. Jean-Paul Debattice Brussels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 7/29/2006 | See Source »

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