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...BILLY CRYSTAL HOW HE GOT STARTed, and he will say in the living room, where as the youngest and shortest of three boys, he was also the loudest. "After dinner, we would perform for 20 or so relatives impressions of Aunt Rose with the sagging upper arms and Uncle Max with the pants the size of New Jersey." He learned show-biz patter, pulling his chair alongside the old Magnavox TV and pretending to be the next guest on the Jack Paar show, peeking down Jayne Mansfield's dress and rolling his eyes, flacking his latest gig. "You know, Jack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Having Struggled From Warm-Up Act to Headliner: BILLY CRYSTAL | 10/19/1992 | See Source »

Many council members love to wax eloquently about their lifelong "interest in public service," (euphemism for "lifelong interest in politics"). Leaving aside the question of whether those loudest in their auto-martyrology have ever set foot in Phillips Brooks House, some U.C. members do genuinely want to improve the quality of life here...

Author: By Adam D. Taxin, | Title: Taking the Council Seriously? | 10/2/1992 | See Source »

...saddens us that our office receives more racial unfairness complaints about the Crimson group than any other aspect of Harvard. It did not go unnoticed by the University administration, faculty and students that during a recent speech in sanders Theatre by controversial CUNY professor Leonard Jeffries, the loudest and most sustained applause from the more than 700 minority students present came when professor Jeffries questioned the integrity of The Crimson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Misrepresented the Harvard Foundation | 4/14/1992 | See Source »

TAXES. Liberals' loudest complaint against Clinton is that he took office in a state that already had a regressive tax system (it weighed more heavily on the poor and middle class than on the wealthy) and has gone along with making it more regressive still. The Governor has not been able to reform significantly the state's income tax structure. He has failed to raise the severance tax on timber, coal, oil and natural gas. To raise revenue for his education and other reforms, Clinton has requested and won two increases in the sales tax, which raises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Clinton Ran Arkansas | 4/13/1992 | See Source »

...said the loudest stadiums he visits are Candlestick Park in San Francisco, when it's full, and Shea Stadium in New York, "where they get a boost from LaGuardia Airport...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: It's Tomahawk Chop Time in Atlanta | 10/12/1991 | See Source »

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