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...speaker of a rare language used exclusively by women; in Jiangyong, China. Nushu, Mandarin for "women's script," was used to share emotions, particularly laments in marriage. In 2002, TIME counted Nushu among the 50% of the world's 6,000 languages facing extinction. DIED. RODNEY DANGERFIELD, 82, stand-up comic whose old-fashioned style of one-liners thrived in an era of hip young satirists; in Los Angeles. After struggling as a comic, using the stage name Jack Roy, he left the business for 12 years and sold aluminum siding. But he made a comeback in his 40s, with...
...Mankoff, however, discovered that not even an oversize, 10-lb. book is big enough to hold all 68,647 cartoons. So he picked the best 2,004 and put the rest on two CDs that come with the book. What he wound up with is not only a stand-up routine for smart people who own a coffee table but a history of American culture. You can see how confused and fascinated New Yorkers were by skyscrapers in the 1930s, how threatened and angered men were by workingwomen after World War II and how uncomfortable Americans were with the growing...
Ultimately, First Daughter takes itself too seriously, is not compelling enough to be serious and most tragically does not have one choreographed dance number to redeem it. Watching Holmes in this utterly shallow role, I feel secondhand embarrassment reminiscent of Jenna and Babs’ stand-up at the Republican National Convention...
...SEOUL Livingsa, in the financial district's Hoehyeon Underground Mall, is a record-album mecca. The tiny shop is so tightly packed with its 150,000 records that customers shuffle sideways around the store. The eclectic catalog includes 1950s Korean folk collections, live Nat King Cole recordings, Eddie Murphy stand-up albums and a jumble of jazz, classical...
...Francisco. Yet this bitter, late-stage Bruce is not all that far from the sensitive comic who, in a 1959 radio interview with Studs Terkel, blames (quite seriously) the declining quality of entertainment on bossy office secretaries. Hot or cool, sober or drug-fueled, Bruce obliterated the line between stand-up and self-revelation...