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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...needed a balance "of financial responsibility between today's Harvard and tomorrow's Harvard," said D. Ronald Daniel, the University treasurer. This, Class of 2003, may become your theme song...

Author: By Jenny E. Heller, | Title: It's Christmas for Scrooge: Endowment Bulges to $13B | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

...show's title came from a song by rapper Method Man; the show's spirit came from hip-hop too. Rock, dressed in black, stalked the stage, barking jokes in a rough cadence somewhere between a Baptist preacher and RUN-D.M.C. Like a hip-hop deejay, Rock sampled the personas of the comic greats he admired--Gregory's political smarts, Richard Pryor's scatological eloquence, Allen's nebbishy charm--and mixed them into something new. "I'm a rap comedian the same way Bill Cosby is a jazz comedian," says Rock. "Cosby's laid back. I'm like, bang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seriously Funny | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

...crafted most of Midler's routines, including her bawdy Sophie Tucker jokes ("I was in bed last night with m' boyfriend Ernie...") and her farewell song to Johnny Carson (You Made Me Watch You). He helped Billy Crystal with the '90s' most sit-throughable Oscar shows, capped by the 1993 gender-bending song parody (to the tune of The Tender Trap): "Those eyes/ Those thighs/ Surprise!/It's The Crying Game." He was the writer when Whoopi Goldberg performed before President and Mrs. Clinton--and when Ted Danson did his blackface bit at a 1993 Friars Club banquet. "He told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Roastmaster General | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

...footnote, we at Darboard discovered that one song was noticeably absent from the WFNX's comprehensive "A" to "Z" play list: the single which appeared on Geffen Records' The Beavis and Butt-head Experience. The title, you ask? I Hate Myself and Want...

Author: By Brad EDWARD White, | Title: DARTBOARD | 9/4/1999 | See Source »

...gorgeously shot scenes, ominous organ music and barely a page of dialogue, all slowly unfolding a circuitous plot involving Gilmore (played with truculent wordlessness by Barney), copulating bees, members of the Gilmore clan, Houdini (played briefly and pugnaciously by Norman Mailer, author of the Gilmore saga The Executioner's Song), a Brahma bull, the Mormon Tabernacle and landscapes ranging from Utah's blindingly bright salt flats to the glacial ice fields of Jasper, Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Hallucinatory Acts | 8/30/1999 | See Source »

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