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Then I realized that I was standing on the machine and that it probably had an internal scale to detect when people lied. I kept wondering if, after I left, the next person would be treated to the message, "Wooh! You're a lot lighter than the whale who was just on here." I briefly considered transferring to a river house...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: Climbing the Stairway to Hell | 11/20/1990 | See Source »

Rita Rudner's wide-eyed, lighter-than-air delivery brings the news that "men with pierced ears are better prepared for marriage -- they've experienced pain and bought jewelry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business Sauce, Satire and Shtick | 11/8/1990 | See Source »

...Live: While a boxing match was almost breaking out on one side of the field, a UConn radio announcer was capturing the lighter side of the game on the other. The announcer compared swerving corner kicks to Frank Viola curveballs and, capturing the tension of the game following a near miss by a Harvard shooter, declared, "Huskies fans can exhale...

Author: By P.i. Rosenthal, | Title: `Slugger' Morrone Excites the Fans | 9/26/1990 | See Source »

Brooks' story goes a little lighter on musicology and a little heavier on personal drama. Black, who writes or co-writes most of his tunes, seems to save himself for his music. Brooks, who co-wrote only three of the cuts on his new second album, No Fences, is more actor than writer; he knows how to put some spin on the standard bio. "Not knowin' nothin' about a lot of stuff, that's me," he says, before launching into a sketch of his college experience ("I was a javelin thrower; at least I wore a uniform that said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Country Classicists | 9/24/1990 | See Source »

...Sherry used to be sort of daring," says Trumball Professor of American History Donald H. Fleming. But he says the aspiring academicians of the 1990s, health conscious as they are, have moved onto a lighter fare...

Author: By Jeffrey C. Wu, | Title: At Some Trendy Schmoozes, Creme de Cassis Has Replaced The Most Venerable Sherry | 9/12/1990 | See Source »

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