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...Hodgman '86 of the Harvard Lampoon claimed no knowledge of the alternate Lampoon. "I'm sure they're a fun bunch of guys," he said. He then showed that famous dry Lampoon wit by adding, "We'll be fire-bombing their office soon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: K-School Lampoon Debuts | 10/24/1985 | See Source »

Rocard, an economist, is a member of the Socialist Party steering committee and mayor of a Paris suburb called Conflans-Ste.-Honorine. Widely admired for his wit and personal charm, he is one of the country's most popular politicians, regularly topping the opinion polls with about a 55% approval rating on general leadership ability. Not only is he far in front of Mitterrand's 38%, but he also leads Premier Fabius, 39, and former Premier Raymond Barre, 61, the most popular conservative opposition figure, both of whom draw some 50%. Rocard, whose standing among the Socialist rank and file...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France a Time for Soul-Searching:Mitterrand's troubled Socialists | 10/21/1985 | See Source »

...sure why we did it," said Peter S. Lee '86, one of the stars. "In the name of wit and humor, I guess. We wouldn't do it again. It really wasn't funny, even though I believe the Holy Cross side seemed to cheer at the time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crusading by Moonlight | 10/19/1985 | See Source »

...savage put-downs of those near by. It is hard for an audience to laugh at Iceman without feeling it is further belittling these shriveled lives. Indeed, during a tryout at the Kennedy Center in Washington, spectators seemed to respond to the play's bleakness, not its raucous wit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Re-Creating a Stage Legend the Iceman Cometh | 10/14/1985 | See Source »

...three months in office, Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze has charmed the diplomatic world with his openness and self-effacing wit. His kindly eyes and unruly silver mane project an image that is radically different from that of his fastidious, poker-faced predecessor, Andrei Gromyko. But like his boss, Mikhail Gorbachev, Shevardnadze is a shrewd, tough-minded politician with steel beneath his smile. Some Sovietologists last summer assumed that Shevardnadze, with his minimal foreign policy experience, would serve simply as a stand-in while Gorbachev acted as his own chief diplomat. Yet Shevardnadze has shown a readiness to take charge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eduard Shevardnadze | 10/7/1985 | See Source »

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