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Calling present military spending levels "absurd," Agran said such expenditures indicate America has a "Rip Van Winkle President and a Rip Van Winkle Congress which has just slept through the end of the Cold...

Author: By David S. Kurnick, | Title: Agran Calls for Military Cuts | 11/5/1991 | See Source »

...front-page editorial, "America has never truly settled its account with sin. The old Puritan heritage periodically surges forth from the collective memory, invading the national life and upsetting the political game. But over time, these resurgences of prudery have grown in cruelty, bordering today on the absurd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America Abroad | 10/28/1991 | See Source »

...which Thomas was also part of, who convened in the dining room at 7 a.m. She vividly recalls the morning when Thomas described the plot of a pornographic film that she believes was Behind the Green Door. "We were all laughing hysterically," says Coleman. "He was talking about how absurd it was." Moreover, says an old friend, his methods of flirtation before he remarried were hardly those of a Lothario. "Clarence's idea of a date was to call up a woman and ask if he can come over and have a beer and talk," says the friend. "He wants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Question of Character | 10/21/1991 | See Source »

...They are causing Clarence Thomas severe emotional anguish, even destroying his career, by dragging the "absurd" allegations of a sleazy liar into the public...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: Lame, Lame, Lame | 10/18/1991 | See Source »

...Sharp responds, "We're not willing to give the Hispanic community any more or less of a voice than any other group. It would be divisive and just as absurd as disenfranchising any part of the population...

Author: By Yin Y. Nawaday, | Title: Boston University and the Chelsea School System: Exploring a New Avenue of Educational Reform? | 10/17/1991 | See Source »

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