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...years later, the memory still brings gales of laughter from Rice and Dahl. "He didn't want anyone living in sin in his county," says Dahl, 59, an associate professor at Ohio State University in Columbus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GREAT ESCAPE | 12/8/1997 | See Source »

What's more, it is oddly similar to a very different playwright's latest failure. Neil Simon's Proposals--the comic kingpin's first Broadway effort since Laughter on the 23rd Floor in 1993--is, like The Old Neighborhood, a memory play that doesn't add up to much. Guided by the family's (now dead) housekeeper, we are taken back to the Poconos in the 1950s, on a summer weekend when several characters encounter a new love or are reunited with an old one. It would be nice to describe this as a flimsy pretext for a batch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: BAD MEMORY: DAVID MAMET AND NEIL SIMON GET NOSTALGIC | 12/8/1997 | See Source »

...town meeting on race may not have clarified the objectives of his One America initiative, but it did showcase his stellar ability as a talk-show host. Assured, composed, informed and witty, he drew out the fears and concerns of his audience and gave them moments of cathartic laughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Clinton Talk Show | 12/3/1997 | See Source »

Still, during Sukkoth, the students don't seem dysfunctional. Berg has put them up for a spiritual slumber party. Laughter rings out, and the smell of pea soup and fresh-baked challah bread emanates from the kitchen. Says Erickson: "Kabbalah is like the spiritual refrigerator. If you're hungry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHAT PROFITS THE KABBALAH? | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

...hilarity of his corruptedness--his voice, manner, language, his crooked sincerity--he wouldn't have wasted all that time writing books. The advantage in having a funny presidency is that people will always think of it fondly, no matter what they were laughing at. The mere act of laughter is heartwarming, and eventually they recall only that and not its cause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PLAY IT AGAIN, DICK | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

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