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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...garb are singin' and dancin' and funnin' away, in a skewed, bitter, made-for-TV version of the old minstrel show. The feet flash, the banjos are pummeled; the energy level ascends in megavolts, moving beyond satire into irresistible entertainment. And suddenly a weird thought creases the moviegoer's skull: TV could use a comedy-variety show with a self-lacerating edge; and Mantan: The New Millennium Minstrel Show--the defiantly offensive TV parody that is at the heart of Spike Lee's Bamboozled--might just be the one. This show could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Shame of a Nation | 10/9/2000 | See Source »

Bush was a member of the Skull & Bones secret society at Yale. It is rumored that if the phrase "skull and bones" is used by a non-member, tradition prescribes that members leave the room. Should Gore use this phrase and should Bush leave the debate early, take a long drink, 'cause it's all over...

Author: By Stephen E. Sachs, | Title: Politics and Potables | 10/3/2000 | See Source »

...Lampoon, of course, encourages such speculation: the editors want very badly for you to wonder what goes on behind their yellow and purple doors. Lampoon editors I have known share three obsessions: Yale secret society Skull and Bones, Harvard's own tight-lipped Porcellian Club, and notoriously secretive author Thomas Pynchon. (The organization claims that Tyrone Slothrop, a fictional Harvard graduate in Pynchon's Gravity Rainbow, was a Lampoon editor.) The Lampoon really, really wants secrecy to be the organization's hallmark. Only invited seniors, enterprising Crimson editors and the select few undergraduates who pass the Lampoon's rigorous comp...

Author: By Alan E. Wirzbicki, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Punch-less 'Poonster Parody | 9/22/2000 | See Source »

...accident at the age of 11 left Ellison in a three-day coma and fractured her skull and spine...

Author: By Winnie Wu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Ellison to Publish Memoir | 9/19/2000 | See Source »

...revolver, walked back into a room and held it to the back of the head of a suspect. "Do you want to die?" he asked. Serafini told investigators he emptied his weapon before he "walked up to the individual and put my weapon to the base of his skull and asked him, `Tell me what you know.' As soon as I said that I realized that I had made a mistake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How U.S. 'Peacekeeping' Became a Reign of Terror | 9/19/2000 | See Source »

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