Word: leifer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Comstock Inc. Star Trek by Henry Gris -- FPG; credit cards by Robert Kristofik -- The Image Bank; Bernard Shaw courtesy CNN; travel by Paul Nehrenz -- The Image Bank; music by John Endress -- The Stock Market; Gone With the Wind from Photofest; The Crying Game courtesy Miramax Films; boxing by Neil Leifer; Arthur's Teacher Trouble courtesy Broderbund Software; VideoPhone courtesy AT&T; still-life photos by James Keyser...
...Carol Leifer, a blond with a flexible voice and metronomic timing, complains that her ex-husband tricked her into marrying him. "He told me I was pregnant...
...Leifer has a wide range of sauciness and satire. Her routines prove that contemporary female comics are secure enough to lampoon other women, especially fast-track yuppettes: "Hi! I just had a baby an hour ago, and I'm back at work already. And while I was delivering, I took a seminar on tax- shelter options...
...postfeminist era, however, women's issues are not always Topic A. Today's female comics, says Leifer, also perform "material that a man could do." A case in point is Boosler on airline absurdities, doing an Alan King staple her way: "The pilot says, 'We are currently hurtling through the air at 500 m.p.h. Please feel free to move about the cabin.' Then you land. You're rolling to the gate at 1 m.p.h. and you hear: 'You must remain seated for your own safety! Sit down!' I'm wondering, could we take off again? I need my coat from...
...Leifer talks "for better or worse, about my personal experiences. I have a new joke about going out to dinner. You know, you order a bottle of wine, and they give you the cork? I feel like a jerk, sitting there sniffing and going, 'Yep, that's cork.' I said that to a waiter and he laughed. I thought, Gee, maybe I should try that...