Word: joking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While there is no truth to the old joke that the people of Finland think sausage is a vegetable, they do have a legendary fondness for fat--and such high cholesterol counts that they are favorite research subjects for heart-disease studies. All that may change if a tiny food-and-grain company has its way. The Raisio Group of Finland has developed a margarine blend that actually lowers a person's cholesterol 10% to 15%. Some experts believe regular consumption could cut the risk of heart attack by a third...
...player in Europe. Now she's something more. "I used to think that someday someone would want me on their team," says Venus Lacy, a center for the U.S. Olympic basketball team. "Now that I'm playing for my country, everything I went through seems like a big joke...
...made public mockery of him as Sherman Klump. Turning heckler, Buddy begins by sarcastically praising the comic for his ability to pick out and pick on people for their weaknesses. Thereafter, things turn ugly for the poor guy: in a sequence owing a lot to Steve Martin's nose-joke routine in a bar in "Roxanne," Buddy proceeds to roast the comic to a crisp. Where Klump had received abuse -- "Now we know what's eating Gilbert Grape!"--Buddy dishes it out, worse than the comic himself could do. (But Chapelle captures the strutting, merciless vulgarity and one-up-manship...
...main-character's-big-secret scene, the shock-of-love-interest-at-betrayal/breathless-reconciliations scene, even a sappy speech about identity that Al Franken's Stuart Smalley could have written. After the vicious stand-up comic scene and another superbly funny nightmare sequence (again, alas, tainted with a gaseous joke or two), the movie simply gets tiresome. It's as if the movie's taking a collective funny potion now and then, having enormously concentrated effects, and then abating, painfully. Even Murphy's Buddy Love fizzles toward...
After Bill Clinton's joke four years ago during his Presidential campaign that Americans could buy one and get one free with Hillary as the First Lady fell flat, the Clintons seemed to have learned their lesson. On the Finnish leg of an 11-day tour through Europe, Hillary said she's looking forward to jumping into the campaign but declined to discuss her role. It's likely to be a much lower profile one than four years ago. TIME's James Carney notes Hillary has become at once one of her husband's best assets...