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...which ends when Jim tapes Dwight inside a box. Michael tries (and fails) to boost morale with an ill-timed birthday party and painfully inappropriate jokes about layoffs, old age, and Meredith’s hysterectomy. Best Line: Angela, “I think green is kind of whorish.” 2) Christmas Party (Season 3, Episode 10) The forces of good and evil (Pam and Karen) unite in opposition against an even greater evil (Angela). Michael’s political incorrectness achieves a new level of hilarity when he tags his Asian date with a marker in order...

Author: By Nayeli E. Rodriguez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Nayeli E. Rodriguez | 12/14/2007 | See Source »

...redemption of a repentant sinner. "The pattern is a common one," writes Jane Schaberg, a professor of religious and women's studies at the University of Detroit Mercy and author of last year's The Resurrection of Mary Magdalene: "the powerful woman disempowered, remembered as a whore or whorish." As shorthand, Schaberg coined the term "harlotization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mary Magdalene: Saint or Sinner? | 8/11/2003 | See Source »

Both Dalis--the disruptive youthful genius and the pretentious, whorish old fanatic--are on full view at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Conn., in a show of some 70 works titled "Dali's Optical Illusions." Its organizer, Dawn Ades, is one of the most distinguished historians of surrealism, the movement to which Dali's work was central. She has done an excellent job of showing and analyzing the ways in which illusion, the act of making marks that get read as "real," acts in his painting. No illusion, no Dali. This isn't true of other surrealists, or painters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Two Faces Of Dali | 3/13/2000 | See Source »

...bastard Demon and whorish Lampoon...

Author: By Ethan G. Drogin, | Title: "Comp The Crimson" | 4/3/1997 | See Source »

...profile of Simpson and Bruckheimer is not flattering, but hardly devastating. Although portrayed as busybodies on the set (Top Gun director Tony Scott recounts how they pressured him to make co-star Kelly McGillis look less "whorish"), their main sin is fuzzy-minded self-importance. After calling themselves a "right brain-left brain" team, they trade sappy compliments. Simpson on Bruckheimer: "He is uncommonly smart ((and has)) the ability to hold the entire equation of moviemaking in his mind at one time." Bruckheimer on Simpson: "Don is very intelligent . . . He's a real big- picture guy." Uh-huh. Which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: And Two Natives Who Got Away | 7/29/1991 | See Source »

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