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...though their perspective may have become a little bleary over the years. Ford Frick was the commissioner in 1953, when Gussie Busch bought the team and wanted to rename old Sportsman's Park Budweiser Stadium. Frick ruled out such crass huckstering, but at 88 Busch has got the last laugh aboard a beer wagon that fetches him to his box before the home games...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Series Heroes Require Introductions | 11/2/1987 | See Source »

...Leverett House production manages to transcend the play's ludicrous premise and make its audience laugh. Part of the reason is that the play does have some indestructible one-liners, like Mortimer's "Insanity runs in my family. In fact, it practically gallops." Even the relentless attacks on theater critics are funny. Really...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Amazing Lace | 10/30/1987 | See Source »

...Bruce Babbitt agreed to appear on Saturday Night Live, in a skit poking fun at & the character issue that is dominating the Democratic race. "It's cathartic for all of us," said Babbitt, as he taped the segment last week in New York City. "People can say Democrats can laugh at their collective misadventures." Besides, Babbitt's TV star turn can only help: the former Arizona Governor is at the bottom of the polls and running short of funds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Candidates: Scandal on Saturday Night | 10/26/1987 | See Source »

...intact. However, he inexplicably destroys the poetic effect by injecting banal modernisms into Ibsen's imagery. Prascak peppers the play with pronouncement's like Peerless' "I feel as strong as a Chicago Bear." Is Prascak making fun of Ibsen's lofty verse, or blindly sacrificing poetry for a cheap laugh? I don't know; it's hard to tell...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Ibsen Afloat | 10/23/1987 | See Source »

When they were out of earshot, Willie began to laugh. I asked him what...

Author: By Rutger Fury, | Title: Coffee at the U.N. | 10/17/1987 | See Source »

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