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Read her sardonic responses, and Aimee suddenly springs to life, as engaging as a well-written sitcom character. Aimee says putting up with the endless voyeurism is a fair price to pay in exchange for finding an appreciative audience for her writing. "I like to think I'm funny," she...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Looking Online | 6/26/2000 | See Source »

Those of us who went into war zones usually found Kurt waiting for us, casual yet intense, bearded in later years, his wire-rim glasses perched above an energetic smile, sardonic yet engaged. I would take him aside to find out what was really happening. He always knew more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eulogy: Kurt Schork | 6/5/2000 | See Source »

Fortunately though, the second half of the play saw an amazing improvement. This was due largely to the efforts of Geidt, whose Truscott really brings out the flavor of Orton's sardonic lines. Dismissing the corruption of the British police and his own ineptitude with the same casual deadpan manner...

Author: By Cheryl Chan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Laughter at the Loeb: Orton There's a Hoot | 2/11/2000 | See Source »

Should you lack adequate funds or GMAT scores to attend Harvard Business School, Bing offers alternative strategies for conquering any industry--provided you are willing to forsake sentiment, human decency and, if need be, close family members. His slim, sardonic primer on workplace ruthlessness applies the teachings of the man...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short Takes: Books: What Would Machiavelli Do? By Stanley Bing | 1/1/2000 | See Source »

DIED. NICCOLO TUCCI, 91, writer of witty and sardonic novels (Before My Time, Unfinished Funeral) and short stories, many with an autobiographical cast and a household of colorful characters; in New York City. Sample advice to novices: "First learn to write as if you were already dead, and then you...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Dec. 20, 1999 | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

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