Word: slights
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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JACKIE MASON: BRAND NEW. Well, not really. The Brillo-haired rabbi turned comic has been doing the same basic Borscht Belt act for decades, but he seems to have a tireless capacity for self-resuscitation. A year after a sitcom flop on ABC, a much publicized racial slight of New York City Mayor David Dinkins, and an embarrassing paternity suit, Mason is on the comeback trail, ! windmilling in three directions. His latest book, How to Talk Jewish, is to be published in January. His weekly talk show debuts on cable in December with a novel solution to the perennial problem...
...year-old spectacled professor is quickto explain his plan with an air of confidence anda slight hint of self-defense. He speaks of hisown solutions with fervor and an enthusiasm seldomassociated with economists...
...only home competition in the fall, number-11 Mike Shyjan will lead the Crimson in singles and doubles. In the doubles matches, though, the junior will play with Derek Brown and not his usual partner, Mike Zimmerman, with whom he is ranked fifth nationally. Zimmerman, recovering from a slight injury, will play number-two singles for the Crimson but will forego any doubles action...
...Balanchine has taken on a strange, ectoplasmic life in the pages of other people's books, most of them written by his former dancers at New York City Ballet. One, Gelsey Kirkland's angry, vengeful Dancing on My Grave (1986), made the best-seller lists. This year brings a slight but more genial coda from Kirkland and the memoir the dance world has been waiting for, from Mr. B.'s last muse, Suzanne Farrell...
Smoking may be annoying, but when was the last time you heard of anyone being pushed down the stairs by someone with a violent nicotine rush? Non-smokers may be at slight health risk from passive smoking, but we are certainly all at risk from the effects of alcohol abuse--immediate, violent effects...