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...break by Henry Higdon and Craig Adams was the first spoiled chance as Cornell senior Steve Wilson, showing why he is an All-ECAC defenseman, dove from behind Higdon to poke the puck out of danger...

Author: By Rebecca A. Blaeser, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Cornell Tops M. Hockey; Season Ends | 3/10/1997 | See Source »

...concede the film's screenwriters, Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, in an introduction to the published version of their script. Its climax revolves around the libel suit filed against Flynt by the Rev. Jerry Falwell, which led to the famous 1988 Supreme Court decision saying it's O.K. to poke fun at public figures, even to say--as Hustler did of Falwell--that they have sex with their mothers in outhouses. I, for one, am grateful to have that right, although not so grateful that I didn't get restless when the movie's narrative drive petered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PORNOGRAPHY AND ITS DISCONTENTS | 1/27/1997 | See Source »

...illustration for this week's cover story, is on all art directors' (very) short list of favorite illustrators. "He can do incredibly richly detailed pieces of art in one day," says TIME art director Arthur Hochstein. "He's considered a modern-day Norman Rockwell because he can poke fun without being meanspirited." Now folks in Payne's hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio, can see what the art directors are raving about. The Cincinnati Art Museum is holding an exhibition of 30 of Payne's drawings, including three of the five covers he has done for TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Our Readers: Sep. 16, 1996 | 9/16/1996 | See Source »

...worry. As always, the know-how is encoded in Ryan's dna. He works his magic against the evildoers and still finds the time to poke his head in on his sleeping children and muse that young Sally "now looked forward to the day she'd buy things from Victoria's Secret." Alas, with Ryan as her father she will probably wind up wearing camouflage-colored bras...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: A STAR-SPANGLED SNOOZE | 9/2/1996 | See Source »

...ironic by American Express, lining her swimming pool with a mosaic of cut-up credit cards). Otherwise, she stays in character: that of a demanding schoolmistress who will be coming around to test for trace elements of bottled dressing in your salade nicoise. When Bryant Gumbel tries to poke a bit of fun at her during her segments on the Today show, she blithely ignores him. If she doesn't take cake decorating seriously, who will? Dominique Browning, editor in chief of the relaunched House & Garden, due to debut this fall, says Martha's dominance derives from the fact that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME 25: THEY RANGE IN AGE FROM 31 TO 67 | 6/17/1996 | See Source »

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