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...their own sexual welcome wagon. There's Darlene (Robin Wright Penn in a reprise of the troubled slut she portrayed in Forrest Gump and Moll Flanders; I miss The Princess Bride), the old flame passed between Eddie and Mickey who counters Eddie's infidelity with her own in mock independence. There's Phil (Chazz Palminteri), the struggling actor who drowns his artistic voice in a persistent whine about his own worth. And there's weed, Valium, fast cars, big houses, sex, sex and more...

Author: By Francesca Petrosino, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: HURLYBURLY | 2/12/1999 | See Source »

...Poonsters' chargin, the parody--dated today--was lost before it could be distributed to a humor-deprived campus. Somehow, on the way from the printer to the Lampoon's mock-Flemish castle, the issues were lost without a trace...

Author: By Alan E. Wirzbicki, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Not Out Today: 'Poon Parody Misguided | 2/5/1999 | See Source »

...parents will forgo painful invasive procedures unless horrible hereditary defects are at stake. But the technology will become more powerful and user friendly. Sooner or later, as the most glaring genetic liabilities drift toward the bottom of the socioeconomic scale, we will see a biological stratification vivid enough to mock American values...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Gets the Good Genes? | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

...know it's not nice to mock an eating disorder, particularly one that's been vigorously denied. Fortunately, someone else did it for us. In its year-end issue, the normally obsequious TV Guide did a takeoff on an ad for Altoids, the ubiquitous mint, starring CALISTA FLOCKHART. Never mind, Ally. Life ain't all roses for self-described "fat girl" actress Camryn Manheim either. Is INSTYLE the only irony-free magazine left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 14, 1998 | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

...therefore decreed that on the 747, pilots should sit above the flight deck so the nose could be opened up and take cargo. The 747's ultimate fate, he thought, would be as a flying Mack truck. Boeing showed him a wooden mock-up of the 747's flight deck, in the hump above the nose. He foraged around and came upon the space behind the flight deck, the rest of the hump. "What is this for?" he asked. "A crew rest area," said a Boeing engineer. "Rest area?" barked Trippe. "This is going to be reserved for passengers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUAN TRIPPE: Pilot Of The Jet Age | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

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