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a. Blame Matt Young. Signed to a multi-million dollar free agent contract over the winter, Young posted a pitiful 3-7 record with a horrific 5.18 earned run average. He also developed a psychological tic that has rendered him constitutionally incapable of throwing the ball to first base. (I...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: Playing the Blame Game | 10/23/1991 | See Source »

The UC should stop worrying about its pitiful, unsalvagable image. To be honest, nobody really cares.

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: Lame, Lame, Lame | 10/18/1991 | See Source »

This summer's films offer support for both truisms. The two megahits are from the two biggest stars: Costner's Robin Hood ($140 million so far) and Arnold Schwarzenegger's Terminator 2: Judgment Day ($160 million). With City Slickers ($105 million), Billy Crystal has demonstrated that a comedian, savvily shaping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Entertainment: Do Stars Deliver? | 8/26/1991 | See Source »

But Duke is also an ambitious politician who is a candidate for Governor of Louisiana, a state with a large black vote. At the rally at a downtown convention center he delivered a typically bombastic Save Our Nation spiel, including his usual appeal to overhaul welfare and do away with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tennessee: Guess Who's Coming? | 7/29/1991 | See Source »

Last fall, self-described "humorists" from the Harvard Lampoon--a semi-sadomasochistic social club that periodically publishes perennially pitiful parodies--axmurdered Cambridge's brave, defenseless Freedom tree. This violent affront to American liberty and the local environment sickened and saddened us all.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD ISSUES | 6/6/1991 | See Source »

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