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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...exactly inundated with people and the plot of the movie stank like rotten eggs, I was pleased with the performances of Chris Farley and Adam Sandler. Both Saturday Night Live regulars made the movie bearable and actually pretty funny at times. In one scene Farley rips an earring off a rebel rocker and, well, let's just say the earring was not attached to the metalhead's ear. Sandler was charming with his portrayal of a stupid drummer for the Lone Rangers band. Much unlike Sandler, Brendan Fraser ("School Ties" and "With Honors") is pathetic as lead singer Chazz...

Author: By Terrance A. Dee, | Title: Can You Pluralize 'Stupid?' | 8/5/1994 | See Source »

...Make sure you get the earring," he grins, turning his head to accentuate the diamond stud in his left ear. "I'm a cool president...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Let's Go: HSA | 10/14/1993 | See Source »

...thesame hairstyle, still wore the chains, and wasstill talking his talk about show business, hiscommitment to public service, his faith, oldfashioned family values. And he seemed as upbeatas ever: "People are mad because I'm still havingfun. They expect to see me with one gold chain,one earring, so they say, `Ain't seen him on TV,hard times gotcha.' Now they see me and it's `ohboy, he's still got that gold.' So they mad, seewhat I mean...

Author: By Daniel J. Sharfstein, | Title: Boston T Party | 10/7/1993 | See Source »

...example, in your chapter describing fellow students, you write that "Sarah wore baggy clothes in shades of brown and burnt orange. Looking at her, you couldn't see any curves or angles, just fabric. Her blond hair was short, and she wore an earring in the shape of a woman symbol." I worry that you make this description so exaggerated as to render it ineffective. (Although I do love your discovery of what it was Sarah had to hide, and why she felt the need to shroud herself in feminism: "I learned that what Sarah hadn't talked about...

Author: By Seth Mnookin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Katie Roiphe and Her Neverending Polemic | 10/7/1993 | See Source »

...cereal boxes. Leno himself has appropriated, clumsily, Letterman-style bits (Jay too makes phone calls for people picked from the audience). The only late-night host who still seems to regard Merv Griffin as an acceptable role model is Arsenio Hall, and he introduces rap groups and wears an earring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: David Letterman: New Dave Dawning | 8/30/1993 | See Source »

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