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...weeks ago, the Office for the Arts gave $400 to a soft sculpture project, $150 to a fashion show and $70 to a group performing a "Halloween orchestral reading." They rejected the application from Jerk, the new humor magazine we edit...

Author: By Philip M. Rubin, | Title: OFA: A Real Jerk | 10/30/1991 | See Source »

...SUPPOSE I should get my biases out in the open. I covered the Red Sox for a couple weeks this summer, so I've met people like Matt Young (total jerk), Danny Darwin (decent fellow) and Lou Gorman (The Establishment personified...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: Playing the Blame Game | 10/23/1991 | See Source »

Conservatives, not surprisingly, tend to advocate a quasi-market solution. The absence of thinking in the White House and the abundance of knee-jerk free marketeers there means that the only suggestion we will get out of Bush is a reluctant agreement to a gap-filling insurance system for those 37 million uninsured...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Curing All Our Nation's Ill | 10/21/1991 | See Source »

...pretty big responsibility for a little kid.") They are a sublime mismatch of the sort usually found only in marriages. Fred balances Mom's checkbook and, as a Mother's Day gift, writes her an opera. Dede brags, like a tough schoolkid, about how she aced out some fastidious jerk in her basement laundry. For her, chain letters are literature. The boy, a nonstop reader, also dotes on Van Gogh's flower studies. Sometimes, Fred says, "I wake up in his paintings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jodie Foster: A Screen Gem Turns Director | 10/14/1991 | See Source »

Litwin adds, however, that some of the people she has met in the course of knocking on doors collecting signatures have been unreceptive because of a knee-jerk fear of drugs. The media contributes further to their missconceptions, she adds. "We definitely run into a lot of prejudice," Litwin says. "We get absolutely no coverage at all, because we're not respected as an organization...

Author: By Erica L. Werner, | Title: Legalize It, Don't Criticize It | 9/28/1991 | See Source »

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