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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...used to trouble me that people thought our sole purpose for being in business was to make fun of people. Unfortunately, there is no joke that does not make fun of somebody. I try to make it, as often as not, me or the show or somebody in our little group. So if we do say something that looks like we're making fun of somebody else, it's in the spirit of everything. But some people don't buy that. I know that some people can't stand me, and it troubles me because I think we're just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview :David Letterman He's No Johnny Carson | 2/6/1989 | See Source »

...gentlemen in question represent the classic poles of soul. Sweet Pea Atkinson sports an open shirt and a pirate's booty of gold chains that make him look, according to a standing band joke, like "a killer pimp." He worked on a Chrysler assembly line for eleven years; when he sings, his voice is all rough edges, Wilson Pickett-style, that soar and spar. Sir Harry Bowens may still be unknown to Burke's Peerage (relax, guys: his knighthood is self- imposed), but fans of the O'Jays will recognize the cool, platinum elegance of his phrasing. He sang with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Chocolate-Covered Razor Blades And other treats from a fun funk band | 1/30/1989 | See Source »

...until the crisis blows over. Some of his most valuable instructions include: learn how to control the media, so that they do not control you; keep a tight rein on press conferences so that important issues cannot be fully explored and you can't nailed; and always have a joke or anecdote to prove your point gently, no matter how strained the analogy or unbelievable the circumstances...

Author: By Robert H. Greenstein, | Title: The Iceman Leaveth | 1/20/1989 | See Source »

Everyone who watches the late show knows that the antique French spoke with Oxford accents. Here, though, the aristocrats speak breadbasket American, while the servants talk with an English or Irish lilt -- a subtle joke on the imperialism of American culture. If there is a pitfall in this strategy, it is that American actors are defter at explosions than at epigrams. They are not trained, as the English are, to coil themselves in hauteur. So at times Malkovich plays the evil dandy too diligently; on his brow you can almost see the fop sweat. Then gradually he learns to trust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Lust Is a Thing with Feathers | 1/16/1989 | See Source »

...safer alternative for Shamir might be to lure Labor into a broad coalition. But the party would be a junior partner, and the opening round of talks proved humiliating for its leader, Shimon Peres. "It's a joke," said Labor Party member Yossi Beilin. "They need us as a fig leaf, and their demands are impossible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shamir's Exquisite Dilemma | 12/5/1988 | See Source »

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