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These days their kill-him-with-kindness target has shrunken to Bush alone, and the Billionaires keep their punchlines to a tight list of issues. Their schtick mentions Kerry only in faux-negative terms, but Billionaires are not allowed to support the nominee seriously. What to do, then, with the four-day binge of Democratic boosterism that is the convention...

Author: By Simon W. Vozick-levinson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Wealthy' Protesters Make Case Outside DNC | 7/30/2004 | See Source »

Matthews’ schtick is impatience. He whines, shouts and questions away, cutting off guests when he gets bored of their answers...

Author: By Jonathan P. Abel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Man Who Makes Matthews Sweat | 12/3/2003 | See Source »

...inspire legitimate laughs, even if they’re hardly high-brow. Less than offensive to the jaded college ear,€Triumph sounds more like a foul-mouthed resident of a retirement home than anything else. Diehard fans are the only listeners who should bother fetching this schtick...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Music | 11/21/2003 | See Source »

...matter how tired their schtick looks on paper, the band does have a knack for turning out energetic, compulsively danceable numbers. For all Ima Robot’s gimmickry, there’s a desperation to “Scream” and a coked-out lunacy to “Song #1” that make you forget that these Reaganomic moves have already been mimed by every “dance-punk” troupe this side of Park Slope...

Author: By Crimson Staff, | Title: New Music | 10/10/2003 | See Source »

...color of his skin. Rush Limbaugh was stupid to bring the issue of race into question when discussing a player's ability. Donovan McNabb is a great player. Period. Rush had no choice but to resign. He's a fraud out of school discussing football. He should schtick to politics. Mike LaNoue Michigan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Was Rush Limbaugh right to resign from ESPN? | 10/6/2003 | See Source »

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