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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...longtime characters - Soph (for Sophie Tucker), the oldest babe in show business - to supply the raunch dressing. "My tits have fallen so far South they're speakin' Spanish," Soph confesses before telling a few ribald classics. Since this is a family website, I'll withhold the punch lines and tease you with a couple of the setups: "If I'd know you were a virgin I would've been gentler." And "Have you ever been picked up by the fuzz?" (Cappers and rim shots available upon written request...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bette Midler Takes Vegas, Leaves Bathhouse | 2/29/2008 | See Source »

...that his umbrella worked better as a sail to catch tailwinds than as a shield against the rain. There are plenty of good uses the enterprising umbrella owner might put his or her old weapon towards. They can be retrofitted into reflectors for studio photographers, or made into makeshift punch bowls...

Author: By Garrett G.D. Nelson | Title: Umbrella Warfare | 2/22/2008 | See Source »

...progress. Officers arrived and spoke to the reporting party who stated that when they attempted to sit down at a table they were threatened by another individual. The reporting party states that the individual then kicked them and struck them in the knee. The individual then threatened to punch the reporting party. The reporting party said that they did not want to pursue the matter criminally. Officers located the individual who had an active no trespass warning for all of Harvard University property. Shea Roberts, 59, was then placed under arrest...

Author: By Nan Ni, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Police Log | 2/21/2008 | See Source »

...about these questions on her year off, one coach was prepared to listen. And, as it turned out, that same coach prepared to offer Markley another chance at playing college basketball.Harvard coach Kathy Delaney-Smith had taken an initial interest in Markley, but Princeton had beaten her to the punch and gotten the forward’s attention very early on in the recruiting process. Nearly two years later, Delaney-Smith expressed interest once again—this time, in different terms.“A lot of people didn’t understand, but when I talked to Kathy...

Author: By Emily W. Cunningham, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Freshman Transfer Finds Home with Crimson | 2/20/2008 | See Source »

...club, the writing becomes far too blunt for the complex emotional situation. In this way, Beane’s words at times threatens to overwhelm his plot. While Diane, who seems to be made purely of plastic, venom, and dynamite, can rhapsodize and finish off with an expletive-filled punch line, the same sort of writing comes off as glib in the mouths of more earthy characters like Mitchell or Alex. The real success in this method of punchy writing is Ellen, whose inexhaustible supply of sarcastic retorts only makes her helplessness starker and ultimately moving.Beane...

Author: By David S. Wallace, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'The Little Dog Laughed' Too Comedic to be Taken Seriously | 2/20/2008 | See Source »

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