Word: jims
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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...
...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...
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...
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...
...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...