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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...EVANS, 34 Circle of Hell: I Seems like: Jerry Lewis on speed Next Seinfeld? Better yet, the next Jim Carrey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Funny: The Next Generation | 8/10/1998 | See Source »

...Evans works harder than anyone who isn't employed by UPS. He sweats so much during his spastic show of pause-free buffoonery that he has to throw his suits away after five performances. Though his bigger-than-Jim-Carrey muggings are funny and his scatological jokes are fine, the audience appreciates the ex-boxer's earnest, humble hard work as much as the laughs. "I used to come off really cool, and people would yell, 'Get off!' And I thought it would be better to move around a lot," he explains. "The philosophy is, a moving target is hard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Funny: The Next Generation | 8/10/1998 | See Source »

Gergen, who is editor-at-large at U.S. News and World Report, a contributor to the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and a visiting professor at Duke University, will begin teaching in the spring...

Author: By Gregory S. Krauss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gergen Takes Position At Kennedy School | 8/7/1998 | See Source »

Then again, no one would confuse personal-injury lawyer Jim ("the Hammer") Shapiro with the Pillsbury Doughboy. He is experimenting with several versions of his one-second spot, at $35 each, in upstate New York. In one ad he yells "Hurt!" while the word comes hurtling at the viewer in large orange letters, above his phone number. Even at a second, the ad is as subtle as a car wreck--and, Shapiro hopes, just as likely to bring him new clients...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blink Of An Ad | 8/3/1998 | See Source »

...JIM WILLWERTH and CHRISTOPHER JOHN FARLEY are two of the most recent TIME staff members to receive honors from the National Association of Black Journalists, a professional organization that annually recognizes excellence in "the media's coverage of the African-American community and experience." This week the two will be awarded the N.A.B.J.'s first-place prize for magazine writing for their Jan. 19 article, "Dead Teen Walking," a sobering account of youngsters on death row. In their story Willwerth, a Los Angeles-based correspondent, and Farley, a senior writer, raised some troubling questions about the conduct of prosecutors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Contributors: Aug. 3, 1998 | 8/3/1998 | See Source »

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