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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hope you like not-so-thinly veiled homophobia. The Jackal "penetrates" government security by seducing a gay civil servant. When he finally disposes of the poor man, the director makes the whole thing look like a big joke. Ha, ha, the gay man got shot! If you don't find this funny, you probably won't enjoy The Jackal...

Author: By Scott E. Brown, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Stupidity, Sexism Plague a Lifeless 'Jackal' | 11/14/1997 | See Source »

...There is often a chorus at breakfast of 'B.J.' meaning I had just told a bad joke," the Baird professor of science says, admitting he is known around campus for his sense of humor as well as his chemistry know...

Author: By Tara L. Colon, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Prankster, Chemist Herschbach Enjoys Post-Nobel Life | 11/13/1997 | See Source »

Herschbach and Woodward continued to joke about the painting for many years. Woodward named Herschbach as the culprit in a magazine article years later...

Author: By Tara L. Colon, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Prankster, Chemist Herschbach Enjoys Post-Nobel Life | 11/13/1997 | See Source »

...glasses, their furniture is well selected, and their culinary skills are often on display. "They have all the accoutrements of domesticity," says Stringfield, who spent half an hour at a recent soiree talking about piecrusts, her one hook into what she sees as the prevailing culture. "We kind of joke about how middle-aged we've become...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE YOUNG AND THE NESTED | 11/10/1997 | See Source »

...classes in this futureworld: civilians, who have sacrificed voting privileges for material ease, and warriors, who earn the right to rule by their willingness to die for the state. In short, we're looking at a happily fascist world. Maybe that's the movie's final, deadpan joke. Maybe it's saying that war inevitably makes fascists of us all. Or--best guess--maybe the filmmakers are so lost in their slambang visual effects that they don't give a hoot about the movie's scariest implications...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: ALL BUGGED OUT, AGAIN | 11/10/1997 | See Source »

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