Word: pokes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...Christian believers to the Jesus Seminar than about the Seminar. The report abounds with condescension and sarcasm about this important quest for historical accuracy. Beginning with "Judas didn't do it. Or at least the charges wouldn't stick," and "Well, the Jesus Seminar is at it again," you poke fun at the event and the scholars exploring the origins of Christianity. Jesus Seminar critics, on the other hand, are quoted with more respect. This subject deserved a more serious treatment. What were you afraid of? Angering the Christian political establishment, scaring the faithful--or the truth? MARY FONTAINE HOUSE...