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...Herman. I think about Pee Wee Herman because while the press is busy making nice to the American people for their remarkable tolerance, while a good portion of the American people for their remarkable tolerance, while a good portion of the nation's liberal establishment basks in an afterglow of acceptance and legitimacy, Paul Reubens, the man responsible for the film Pee Wee's Big Adventure and the television show "Pee Wee's Playhouse," continues to hover in a kind of pop culture purgatory...
...bank, which was launched in the peaceful afterglow of World War II as the basis for an orderly and wise international economic system, is financed by contributions from the wealthiest of its 177 shareholder nations. Yet the institution now faces a cacophony of grievances. Among them...
...week of big pitches from the White House. Basking in the afterglow of the South Lawn signing of the Middle East peace agreement, the Clinton Administration launched the sales job on its health-care plan and rolled out three former Presidents -- Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and George Bush -- to endorse the North American Free Trade Agreement. In a meeting with small- business owners, Clinton promised flexibility on some important elements of his health plan, especially on proposals that might harm small businesses. Earlier, House and Senate Republicans unveiled their own plan, which would not compel employers to cover workers...
...time political lovefest, the challengers bounced out of the convention way above the incumbents: a TIME/CNN poll conducted on the day Perot quit the race had Clinton-Gore topping Bush-Quayle by 20%. That lead was 3 points larger than the one that Michael Dukakis enjoyed in the immediate afterglow of the 1988 convention. But Dukakis kept his campaign in low gear, and the Bush team wiped out his lead with negative campaigning. This time the Democrats are taking no chances. The day after the convention, Clinton and Gore set out on a six-day bus tour from New York...
...began, appropriately, in the afterglow of an Optimist club meeting in Lafayette, N.Y., on a Thursday night in the winter of 1972. Over a couple of beers, Doug Keller was telling fellow Optimist Clay Smith about an experiment one of his Syracuse University graduate students was doing. As part of Keller's graduate class in materials science, the student was trying out various chemicals to see if there was some agent that would allow drills to penetrate coal more easily. When he applied ammonia, explained Keller, the raw coal broke down into fine particles, separating the purer hydrocarbons from rock...