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...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 »

...frenzied, festival atmosphere of the seaport city of Barcelona sets the stage. After reading a few too many legends of gallant knights and fair maidens, the eccentric old Don Quixote wanders here with his sidekick Sancho Panza. As he arrives on the scene clad in makeshift armor, he discovers his fictitious Lady Dulcinea in the personage of the lovely peasant girl Kitri and vows to rescue her from peril. Kitri is indeed in trouble, for her father Lorenzo has tried to force her to marry the rich aristocratic fop Gamache over her sweet-heart, the young barber Basilio. Pursued...

Author: By Phoebe Cushman, | Title: Battling Windmills at the Wang | 2/18/1993 | See Source »

...Staff James Baker put it so bluntly in a White House meeting, Jews were not among the GOP's top concerns on Election Day. (Quite frankly, American Jews--more than 80% of whom voted for Bill Clinton--did not want four more years of Bush and his Israel-squeezing sidekick, anyway.) Bush remained firm and instead pardoned a man who helped to orchestrate Pollard's unduly harsh sentence...

Author: By Allan S. Galper, | Title: Pardon Paradox | 1/13/1993 | See Source »

Gilbert Gottfried also turns in a fine performance as Jafar's parrot sidekick Iago. The bird is Gottfried's animated avian counterpart. Gottfried defines the bird's loud and obnoxious personality in the likeness...

Author: By Danielle A. Phillip, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Aladdin: Disney's Latest Charm | 12/3/1992 | See Source »

...Navy has decided to reinstate a gay officer, reports Stern's sidekick, Robin Quivers. Stern responds with a mincing homosexual imitation, then argues that gays in the military should have separate quarters to avoid sexual promiscuity. "When I get nude in front of a gay guy, they get so hot that they can't control themselves." Russian President Boris Yeltsin has made another plea for economic aid. "Those stupid lazy bastard Russians," snaps Stern. "They're under communism so long they can't even produce anything." Amy Fisher, the Long Island teenager charged with murder, has just appeared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shock Jock | 11/30/1992 | See Source »

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