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...those jokes," Barnicle claims. "They're just out there floating in the air in the public domain." But when Boston's WCVB-TV, where he is a contributor, produced a tape of a June 22 segment in which Barnicle held up the book and said it had "a yuk on every page," the paper asked for his resignation; he refused. At week's end, word was the Globe was about to fire him. Last Friday, Barnicle met with publisher Ben Taylor; it was not a happy session. Afterward, Barnicle said, "walking to my car, I was reduced to tears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theft, Or Cutting Corners? | 8/17/1998 | See Source »

...through with the interview, I walked out the door with her and helped her on with her coat," he says. "And I said, 'As a single member of the faculty, I'd be especially interested in your coming to Texas A&M.' She looked up at me and said, 'Yuk!'" Undeterred, Gramm returned to his colleagues and said triumphantly, "We're going to convince her to come to Texas A&M, and I am going to marry her." Both predictions came true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOW RIGHT THOU ART | 3/13/1995 | See Source »

...Yang (Lawrence Ng), a handsome and charismatic young scholar, marries the buxom, beautiful and prudish Yuk Heung (Amy Yip). After a comically disastrous wedding night, Mei Yang initiates his wife into the pleasures of sex. Failing to heed the advice of an elderly monk, Mei Yang leaves Yuk Heung in order to pursue a life of ordered womanizing. A pitiful Don Juan with a beleaguered Leporello, Mei Yang discovers that he is, comment dit-on, unequipped for the task. In a riotously slapstick scene, he submits to an operation in which a horse's member replaces his inadequate...

Author: By Joel VILLASENOR Ruiz, | Title: Zen and the Art of Matrimonial Maintenance | 2/10/1994 | See Source »

...suitably accoutered, Mei Yang seduces the wife of Kuen (Kent Chung), a brutal silk merchant. Humiliated, Kuen leaves the town and becomes a gardener in the house where Yuk Heung languishes. Mei Yang is taken in by a pair of lesbian cousins with a penchant for flutes, food and S&M. Engaged in Blakean excess, Mei Yang is unaware that, perhaps to justify the "Zen" in the title, a day of reckoning awaits...

Author: By Joel VILLASENOR Ruiz, | Title: Zen and the Art of Matrimonial Maintenance | 2/10/1994 | See Source »

Avalon. 15 Lansdowne St., Boston. 262-2424. High energy-top 40-techno-progressive dance music. Yuk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Listings | 12/10/1992 | See Source »

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