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MIKHAIL GORBACHEV Given two minutes on lowbrow Italian TV show, he spouts forth on politics for 15. And gets paid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Mar. 8, 1999 | 3/8/1999 | See Source »

TAMALA M. EDWARDS indiscriminately reads highbrow opinion journals and lowbrow women's magazines alike. In the past month she has written on subjects ranging from Bill Bradley's campaign for President to Gwyneth Paltrow's hair extensions. This week she looks at some of the issues surrounding Wendy Shalit's A Return to Modesty, an essay that urges women to empower themselves through modesty and "lost virtue." As part of the book's target audience, Edwards feels strongly ambivalent: "You want to be courted, but you're raised to be independent. The book really pulls you in opposite directions." Edwards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Contributors: Mar. 1, 1999 | 3/1/1999 | See Source »

Specifically, Weisbard said he believes the Demon uses "lowbrow, sex-based humor" while the Lampoon is no longer widely read by the Harvard population...

Author: By Daniel A. Zweifach, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Humor Magazine Prints First Issue | 11/23/1998 | See Source »

Though it got little respect from the critics, Family Matters was in fact the most delightfully outre comedy on TV, an anything-goes farce with good lowbrow gag writing and snatches of smart parody. But just try to say goodbye. The show's producers, reportedly miffed at CBS, aren't talking to the press. White, 21, who is finishing classes at UCLA and said to be writing screenplays, is incommunicado as well. All are getting ready, no doubt, for the last episode of Seinfeld...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Another Teary Farewell | 5/18/1998 | See Source »

Stomp's conception is this: The world around us is filled with rhythm--rhythm that can be drawn out of anything; household objects, industrial junk, the lowbrow things you find in your pockets, the natural world itself. That means that the world is filled with music. "You can make music out of absolutely anything, whether it's...tapping on a Coke can or picking up pebbles on the beach," says the show's co-creator Steve McNicholas. "It's what you want to do with...

Author: By Susannah R. Mandel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Eat This, Michael Flatley: 'Stomp' Rolls In | 11/14/1997 | See Source »

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