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...some point during the article can you mention that I'm looking tan and well rested?" David Letterman asked TIME in an interview four years ago. "I know I'm not, but I always think that makes for a real successful piece." It was a quintessential Letterman quip, poking fun at himself and the conventions of show business. This time around, we obliged him right on the cover. The truth in his jest is that Letterman is never really tan and well rested -- wasn't then and isn't now, as he puts the finishing touches on the latest entry...
...headiest of Manhattan's power lunchrooms, Diller, with his bullethead and designer-mogul aura, manages to draw a crowd. Henry Kissinger nuzzles onto his banquette for a brief chat; other members of the business and media elite stop to pay homage. To each, Diller offers a greeting or a quip, then gets back to his enthusiasm of the moment. He is talking about home shopping...
When it became public knowledge this year that "Good Time Charlie" Wilson, a 10-term Democrat, had written 81 bad checks totaling $143,857 on the House bank, he had a quip ready: "It's not like molesting young girls or young boys." Opponent Donna Peterson was not amused. The 32-year-old West Point grad, a former helicopter test pilot and business consultant, says she is going to oust Wilson from the East Texas seat he has held for 20 years...
...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'" story...
...charges have no part in a political campaign. "That's all part of the character issues," she insisted. "And anyone who is going to be President -- you do look at the character of the person. That's what makes a person whole." Such remarks led a party official to quip, "She's our answer to Hillary...