Word: minore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...street laugh. Then, realizing that he could earn a living at this, he headed off to the comedy-club circuit. Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons was impressed with Lawrence's "natural charm and presence" and hired him as host of Def Comedy Jam. Lawrence also landed scene-stealing minor roles in movies like Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing. "To attain universal appeal, the conventional wisdom is that you should dilute, homogenize black comedy," says filmmaker Warrington Hudlin, who cast Lawrence in House Party and Boomerang. "His approach is just the opposite." In January Lawrence will release a comedy...
...least for their old-fashioned music. Broadway Angel, a division of Angel Records, is re-releasing 34 original cast recordings; its newest offerings are four London cast albums. Says Sabinson: "I can't buy them fast enough." Other record companies are competing, frequently offering obscure shows or minor variants to sometimes obsessive collectors...
Thus, I have three suggestions. First, try to convince the powers that be to adopt Plan Two. Second, if you don't mind being a minor criminal, participate in the Tupperware plan yourself. Third, if you do participate in the current program, take Martin S. Feldstein '61 out to dinner with you. Take up a collection to pay for his meal--society owes him at least a plate of General...
Striking: As you might have heard, the NHL's referees and linesmen went on strike Monday in search of higher wages, and replacements from various minor leagues and the college ranks were called up by NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman in an attempt to break the strike...
...Dinkins and New Jersey Governor James Florio, were turned out of office. Their defeats were the more galling because of the identity of their Republican conquerors. Former prosecutor Rudolph Giuliani had lost to Dinkins four years earlier; Christine Todd Whitman was a relative novice who had held only one minor elective office in New Jersey and proposed pie-in-the-sky tax cuts...