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...there's the rub...

Author: By John B. Trainer, | Title: Restic's Last Season: Wishing on a Star | 9/13/1993 | See Source »

Yuppies (or are we now "yuppies emeritus"?) find the whole subject a minefield of embarrassment, as the remains of 1960s values rub against 1990s bourgeois affluence. And leaving home is no escape. Hotels, in particular, seem intent on making you feel ridiculous, with their doormen dressed up like Nubian slaves and their insistence on having someone else carry your bag even if you're perfectly capable of carrying it yourself. You, meanwhile, follow along making desperate small talk and wondering nervously how many singles you have in your wallet. Who needs this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yuppies and The Servant Problem | 7/5/1993 | See Source »

...band and started playing in Bay Area clubs, eventually attracting an ardent following that included Bruce Springsteen and Rickie Lee Jones. Another early fan was director Jonathan Demme, who cast Isaak in cameo bits in his films Married to the Mob (Remember the fast-food clown who tried to rub out Tony the Tiger?) and Silence of the Lambs (as a SWAT team member). He had a few lines of dialogue in David Lynch's Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, but his biggest break came last year, when director Bernardo Bertolucci invited him to play the American father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rockabilly Heartthrob | 6/14/1993 | See Source »

...sign over her house to him, but since Miss Beryl's role is to be the Smartest Person in Town, she won't. the novel's hero, Sully, a 60-year-old handyman with a bad knee, will enact Good Guy Without a Grain of Sense. Sully's sidekick Rub plays Loyal Shortie with the Brain of a Beagle. The lawyer Wirf, representing Sully in a workmen's comp case, will remain Drunk & Useless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boarded-Up Glocca Morra | 5/31/1993 | See Source »

...didn't come here to learn how the manage. I came here to win. I know I sound confident, and I am. And I want that to rub off on our players."--Kevin Kennedy, Texas Rangers manager, whose team opened the season 6-2 despite having several players on the disabled list...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Of Laimbeer and Losing | 4/17/1993 | See Source »

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