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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gags like this get Michael Scanlon Jr. fighting mad. The American Bar Association's new $170,000-a-year image consultant has heard just about every snide lawyer joke making the rounds -- and he is not amused. "Some cross the line from humor into bashing," he says. "And when something does cross the line, we have a right to speak out." Indeed, the A.B.A. has started a campaign to improve the popular image, so to speak, of lawyers. It's not going to be easy -- in the world's most litigious society, lawyer bashing has become a beloved pastime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: First, Kiss All the Lawyers | 8/16/1993 | See Source »

...outfielder's "joke" goes awry as firecracker injures child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Winners & Losers: Aug. 9, 1993 | 8/9/1993 | See Source »

...joke? Asneeze and Ahchoo. It wasn't funny in the movie either...

Author: By Young IL Kim, | Title: These Tights Don't Fit | 8/6/1993 | See Source »

...movie ends just as its one joke is petering out. The aliens fit in, and the world...er, universe is a better place. In short, "Coneheads" is a genuinely funny movie which would make a good activity after an evening at a local house of intake (restaurant...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: One-Joke Celluloid Presentation Amusing | 7/30/1993 | See Source »

...ends up feeling like the infamous Juice sketch on SNL where one bad thirty-second joke is stretched into a fifteen-minute skit. Instead, though, the movie is a fifteen-minute skit that is stretched out to an hour and a half with SNL players sprinkled around in one-shot roles...

Author: By Christopher J. Hernandez, | Title: Shallow Plot, Disconnected Characters Sink 'Axe Murderer' | 7/30/1993 | See Source »

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