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Ever since Bill Clinton strode onto the national stage, armchair shrinks have had a field day labeling him an adolescent, a man defined by all-night bull sessions, fast-food orgies, raging hormones and peripatetic curiosity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CLINTON IN THE RYE | 7/22/1996 | See Source »

...this day, Rudenstine sits on a small hard-backed chair tilted dangerously on its two back legs and props his feet on the armchair in front of him. Putting aside a crystal tray holding the half-eaten fruit salad he has ordered for lunch, he sips a Diet Coke and fidgets slightly while his eyes roam from the ceiling to the reporters to the elegant furniture in his spacious Mass. Hall office...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE FIRST 5 YEARS | 6/6/1996 | See Source »

March madness is upon us once more. As every armchair prognosticator tries desperately to come up with picks for the office pool, my roommate Brooks Morrin and I are here to end all of the speculation and let you in on what the most exciting three weeks in sports will hold. Through a dissection of each region, we present our tournament selections...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Opening the Crystal Ball of the NCAA Tourney | 3/14/1996 | See Source »

...host at a breakfast and dinner with other neoconservatives to meet Alexander and offer him their ideas. "Lamar is most in sync with the idea of deepening the Republican realignment," says William Kristol, the neoconservative guru. Thus the candidate posing as an outsider sealed his dalliance with Washington's armchair insiders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOOKING FOR MR. RIGHT | 1/22/1996 | See Source »

...apparently, she liked Marcel Duchamp, artist and gigolo to the rich, who appears to have had a role in the sentimental education of her sister Ettie. (Since Ettie cut many pages from Florine's diaries after her death, one cannot be sure.) Florine's portrait of Duchamp in an armchair, turning a slender crank that raises his invented feminine alter ego Rrose Selavy into the air, is one of the most stylish tributes offered by one American artist to another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: CAMPING UNDER GLASS | 9/18/1995 | See Source »

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