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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Largest Rocky Mountain Oyster Feed. But I can guess what happened. When the now-dry fire fighters served her plate of food, I bet no one informed the snob she wasn't eating anything aquatic. The "hicks" usually let you get a few bites down before revealing the joke...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, | Title: Shoring Up Civic Position | 6/22/1996 | See Source »

Through it all, public suspicion will continue to fester. "Yeltsin may win honestly," says Paul Goble, an assistant director at Radio Free Europe, "but nobody in Russia is going to believe it." Naturally, Russians have already reduced the outcome to a joke: Yeltsin is asked what will happen if he wins the election. He replies, "Russia will have a new President." And if he loses? Yeltsin answers, "Then you will have your old President." New or old, the President may have revived his campaign, but he has not restored much respect for himself or the office he holds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE YELTSIN SURGE | 6/17/1996 | See Source »

...where they were to tape their only debate. The two men shook hands, and then Peres, 72, leaned forward and said to his young opponent, "You have a stain on your jacket." For a moment, Netanyahu turned red with panic. Then Peres burst out laughing. It was a good joke but a smug one, reflecting the Prime Minister's supreme confidence as it played on his challenger's reputation as a handsome but empty suit. In the end, though, the humiliation belonged to Peres, the last laugh to the glib former diplomat with only eight years' experience in the take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE RIGHT WAY TO PEACE? | 6/10/1996 | See Source »

...more than 300,000) and, over the course of six years or so, to resist the entreaties of all the major-label suits who have sent letters, faxes and E-mail her way in their efforts to sign her. DiFranco says her label "started out as kind of a joke," but she now believes "the interests of big businesses are just fundamentally contradictory to the interests of art and people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: THE FIERCEST FOLKIE | 6/10/1996 | See Source »

Thomas loves to make her friends happy, whether it's by cracking a joke or making them a great drink. Over Spring Break this year, Thomas, who doesn't drink alcohol, was the official frozen drink maker for a group of friends who vacationed together in Puerto Rico. At first she made the typical concoction of strawberries, ice and vodka, but as the night wore on, the ingredients became more and more bizarre: peanut butter, milk, a strange vegetable paella she found in the refrigerator and then finally a leftover chicken dish with olives, tomatoes and cheese...

Author: By Theodore K. Gideonse, | Title: Not Exactly Miss Manners | 6/6/1996 | See Source »

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