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...such backlash cases. The most famous was brought by Jerold Mackenzie, a former Miller Brewing executive, who claimed that the company wrongfully interfered with his employment status after a co-worker, Patricia Best, accused him of sexual harassment. He had recounted for Best an episode of Seinfeld on TV that indirectly referred to the clitoris, and then showed her the word in the dictionary. A jury gave him $26.6 million last summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Crisis: Sex And The Law | 3/23/1998 | See Source »

...well-meaning dictums and chicken soup, while wives and daughters had the leisure to morph into superficial, whiny consumers. At least, that was how the situation was presented by Jewish male writers and artists, Davidson noted. The scholar counts Phillip Roth, Herman Wouk and later Woody Allen and Jerry Seinfeld, among those who introduced and popularized such stereotypes concerning Jewish women in American culture...

Author: By Pam Wasserstein, | Title: More Than Words | 3/20/1998 | See Source »

Maybe Primary Colors is not about loving the man but about loving the work. Early on, when May asked Nichols what he was hoping to say in the film, he told her, "It's secretly Seinfeld. It's about the fun friends have together in what turns out to be the happiest time of their lives." As happy as that canny politician John Travolta, parading his charisma in Hollywood. As happy as that consummate showman Bill Clinton, locking eyes and hands with one more member of the universal audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: True Colors | 3/16/1998 | See Source »

Lloyd Bridges was best known as the father of Beau and Jeff, as the star of TV's "Sea Hunt" and as the deputy sheriff in "High Noon." But more importantly, in an age where humor consists primarily of Seinfeld-esque ironic cool, Bridges wasn't afraid to be goofy. There is, of course, his classic turn as a chain-smoking air-traffic controller in "Airplane!" While nobody could completely rescue "Hot Shots" (or, for that matter, "Part Deux"), his Admiral Benson came close. And how can you not admire a man who could star in a stinker like "Battlestar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lloyd Bridges, 1913-1998 | 3/11/1998 | See Source »

...that Seinfeld where Kramer found the Merv Griffin set? Was that the best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 9, 1998 | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

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