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- <text id=92TT0901>
- <title>
- Apr. 27, 1992: Sketch Artists
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Apr. 27, 1992 The Untold Story of Pan Am 103
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 73
- Sketch Artists
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- <p>By Michael Quinn
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- <p> The TV host who lists God among his dear, dear friends.
- The rocket scientist reduced to infantile babbling by a
- possessive mother. Everyone had a favorite "Mike and Elaine"
- sketch last week when the legendary comics were feted at a
- Manhattan benefit for the Museum of Television & Radio.
- Filmmakers today, 30 years ago Mike Nichols and Elaine May meant
- surgically precise social satire. Tom Brokaw recalled his
- college days, when playing a Nichols and May record by
- candlelight was the essence of hip. Now, says May, "language has
- deteriorated to gobbledygook. We have such `politicalspeak' that
- the language itself is satire."
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- </body></article>
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