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When the Kansas Board of Education voted recently to eliminate evolution from the state science curriculum, the sophisticates had quite a yuk. One editorial cartoon had an ape reclining in a tree telling his mate, "We are descended from the Kansas School Board." The decision has been widely derided as a sign of resurgent Middle American obscurantism, a throwback to the Scopes "monkey trial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Real Message of Creationism | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

Dawson, uh, James Van Der Beek, is the second string quarterback who sees no action on and off the field until the town hero is sidelined by a tendon-tearing sack. His band of yuk-ups consists of a jolly redneck Billy Bob, a Casanova with a strategically placed cowboy hat, and a black running back who's only purpose, it seems, is to fulfill a hopelessly contrived racism subplot. Throw in a dash of T & A, a pinch of pecs, the trampy, whipped cream bikini-wearing blond cheerleader and bring to a simmer in a cauldron of frothy beer...

Author: By Judy P. Tsai, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Winter Round-Up | 2/12/1999 | See Source »

...London-based, bicontinental celebrity, Amis is familiar with customs on both sides of the Atlantic. His sharp eyes and ears are unforgiving of pretense and shortcomings, which appear to include about every activity of his species. Our pathetic preoccupations with sex are always good for a yuk. Let Me Count the Times is about a man who compiles statistics on his love life, which includes an affair with himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bitter Sweets | 2/8/1999 | See Source »

Resentful after my brilliant underdog pick had fallen by the wayside, I blamed the greedy Foxboro fans and their incessant "Go for Two" chant. Yuk it up, I fumed. Two years from now you'll all be pounding it down I-84 to Hartford to watch the Ex-Patriots...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, | Title: Unofficials | 12/1/1998 | See Source »

...lawyers who cover up the truth because they, the American People, hope for the truth, and they demand it. And they will know the truth when they hear it. Because the American People don't want open-ended fishing expeditions, and they don't want crud dumped on them. (Yuk! Who does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Speaking for the American People... | 10/19/1998 | See Source »

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