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...biting comment exchanged over the potato counter in Stalinist Moscow is not for here. But there is humor elsewhere, not in the queazy attempts at stand-up savagery, but the politics themselves. How can you poke fun at American politics when the thing itself is so damn hilarious? Why make endless quips about that nice Mr. Quayle when one look at his squidgy visage, writhing with stupidity, outdoes anything a comedian could express. All the way through the Vice-Presidential debate I was doubled up with laughter as cliche rebounded off smirk, off slick quip, off tear-jerking'''real-life...

Author: By Tony Gubba, | Title: For the Moment | 10/22/1992 | See Source »

...tricks. "We're at the early stages of what may be a paradigm shift, and a lot of this stuff will look clunky," says Charles Altschul, a Yale design professor who serves as the center's director of education. "But you can feel the artists' creativity beginning to poke through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can You Picture This? | 8/24/1992 | See Source »

...rumors developed into genuine scuttlebutt, then matured into full-scale gossip. The stroy fell within my beat, so I began to poke around...

Author: By Joshua W. Shenk, | Title: My Life With the Bee | 5/13/1992 | See Source »

...presents Chucklehead, Squid, Militex 1000, and Slow Poke Feb. 21 and Left Nut, Orangutang, The Balls, and The Barnies Feb. 22.528 Comm Ave., Kenmore Square...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Everywhere But Harvard | 2/20/1992 | See Source »

...nations to open their facilities to inspection by the IAEA. But Iraq's success in reaching the brink of nuclear-weapons production with a clandestine program while allowing IAEA inspectors to visit its few declared facilities has demonstrated the futility of that. The agency has a theoretical right to poke into suspected but unadmitted nuclear installations but has never exercised it. Even if the agency did -- and there is much talk about making that easier -- and caught a country clandestinely making A-bombs, there is no provision in the NPT for any penalties against the offender: the matter would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Else Will Have the Bomb? | 12/16/1991 | See Source »

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