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Gags like this get Michael Scanlon Jr. fighting mad. The American Bar Association's new $170,000-a-year image consultant has heard just about every snide lawyer joke making the rounds -- and he is not amused. "Some cross the line from humor into bashing," he says. "And when something does cross the line, we have a right to speak out." Indeed, the A.B.A. has started a campaign to improve the popular image, so to speak, of lawyers. It's not going to be easy -- in the world's most litigious society, lawyer bashing has become a beloved pastime...
Kravis' entry in turn aroused the interest of one after another of the wheelers and dealers of Wall Street, all avid for a piece of the action. After numerous bids, counterbids, leaks, secret phone calls, threats, pizzas, lies, midnight meetings, attempted bribes, snide remarks about cigarette smoke, and stabs in the back, Kravis landed the company for $7.4 billion more than Johnson had initially offered, and Johnson got to open a $53 million golden parachute and take a hike...
...Rather than 100 minutes of dreary self-parody, the production flings itself into the play with gay abandon. Of course it still appears garish, over-the-top, even absurd; but it is not cast as simply worthless. The distinction may seem subtle, but it makes the difference between a snide exercise in self-congratulation and a vigorous rendition of a difficult, dated play...
Until last month, residents of Adams House trudged into the dining hall every Friday morning expecting to find a snide, wryly offensive, humorous-but-hurtful "Oak Leaf" on a table next to ID checker Jane's desk. Handwritten by semi-anonymous editors, the comments on the back of the "Oak Leaf" in its classic form variously taunted, sent up, amused and enraged house members. "In/out" lists distinguished the cool from the merely average...
...seconds, a personal record for brevity. "Bad. It's bad," he gasped. "I'm going to let Hillary say something." She delivered a brief speech filled with the pronoun "we." Afterward a reporter cracked to a Clinton aide, "I thought Mrs. Wilson's speech was fine," a snide reference to the last year of Woodrow Wilson's second term when the invalid President ceded much official power to his wife...