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Bart St. Clair is terrific as the semi-sadist in question. He also sends up a series of characters seeking to cash in on Seymour's sudden success, portraying everyone from Clair Booth Luce to a William Morris agent. And as the voice and puppeteer of Audrey II, respectively, Toby Blackwell and Bill Tomlinson create such a wonderful "mean green mother" of a plant that you almost start rooting...

Author: By Lori E. Smith, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: An Entertaining Shop of Horrors | 12/10/1992 | See Source »

...program] is an effort by thegovernment to take care of what was probably anoutdated system of tax administration in which yousent one revenue agent, who was increasingly metby a phalanx of [lawsuits], trying to grapple withexceedingly complex tax issues by himself orherself," Owens said...

Author: By Stephen E. Frank, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: IRS Begins Careful Audits of Universities | 12/3/1992 | See Source »

WITH THE FALL OF COMMUNISM, DOUBLE AGENTS seem more likely to inhabit novels than real life these days. But Cuban exile Francisco Avila Azcuy claims he was just that -- a double agent spying on exile commandos in Miami for Fidel Castro while helping the FBI unravel Cuba's espionage network in the U.S. Not uncoincidentally, a Cuban diplomat at the U.N. was expelled after the Spanish- language Miami TV station WSCV secretly videotaped the official discussing a prospective exile raid on Cuba with Avila...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Serving Two Masters | 11/23/1992 | See Source »

That quality had sustained Clinton throughout an unusually harsh campaign season. Starting last January, he repeatedly had to persuade voters that despite what they were hearing about Gennifer Flowers and draft evasion, he was a reliable agent of change. This fall, desperate to catch up, Bush ferociously attacked Clinton, but the President won a Pyrrhic victory. Earlier surveys showed that the public doubted Clinton's credibility and gave him higher negative ratings than a front runner usually gets. On Election Day, half of those who rated a candidate's honesty as an important quality voted for Bush. But that group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Coalition for the 1990s | 11/16/1992 | See Source »

...Make a Secret Service agent take your driving test...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: Risky Business | 11/10/1992 | See Source »

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