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...Show, Rock says, his writers supply him with about half his material; when he's performing at clubs or doing his one-man specials, he writes all his jokes himself. He generally avoids computers ("I had one once, and it crashed") and instead writes his ideas down in red pen on yellow legal pads. ("I've got notepads from when I was in fifth grade.") Lately he's taken to calling up his answering machine and leaving messages for himself. His comic ideas begin as cumulus clouds of general observation before coalescing into the thunder and lightning of his stand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seriously Funny | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

...method of his democracy movement, meanwhile, is a "strategy of the pen," he said. He said he believes truth and non-violent resistance will overcome the repressive regime in Haiti...

Author: By Martin L. Yeung, | Title: Aristide Seeking Tighter Embargo | 9/4/1999 | See Source »

...Four-Color Clicker Pen: A must for anal pre meds who like their class notes color-coded...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Linguistics 101: Harvard for Beginners | 6/25/1999 | See Source »

...young Bishop Wojtyla first made his mark by drafting a document declaring the primacy of religious freedom, even for non-Catholics). But it is impossible to call John Paul II anything other than a conservative. He does not take to new currents in Catholicism, and has displayed a ready pen for excommunication. He is stoutly against birth control, abortions and female priests, and has similarly held the line on remarriage after divorce, annulments and celibacy in the priesthood. Infallibility is the rock of John Paul?s church. To borrow from Winston Churchill -- up with dissent he does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pope, the Church and Change | 6/18/1999 | See Source »

Dunn took her seat, sandwiched between Knowles and Fineberg. At last the murmurs about the "historic moment" and "the beginning of a new era" quieted down. With a stroke of a pen, Sheerr and Rudenstine signed a seven-page statement of intent to merge. And in the burst of applause that followed, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, so long in the making, was born...

Author: By Adam A. Sofen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: How the Deal Was Done | 6/10/1999 | See Source »

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