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While Stephanopoulos is by far the most swooned over Clintonista, this insider audience cheered loudest for the Little People of the campaign. Carville's assistants and all-around War Room anchors Melissa Green, sitting on the floor in her backward baseball cap, and Collier Andress sent the applause meter jumping, as did Stephanopoulos' aide Heather Beckel. And Robert Boorstin, now a special assistant to the President, won a mixture of laughter and sighs for his Best Supporting Nerd walk-ons, in particular a scene recorded at the morning staff meeting during the convention at which Boorstin wouldn't give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dispatches: Clinton Campaign Home Movies | 11/22/1993 | See Source »

...Beast will transpose to the stage the hit songs and scenic devices of the 1991 animated film, itself based on a venerable fairy tale. If art is supposed to be relevant, Broadway is missing the message. And if art is an escapist time machine, Broadway's has one setting -- backward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forward to The Past | 11/22/1993 | See Source »

...Congress considers NAFTA this week, we hope that it is able to look beyond Perot's scare tactics and the narrow interests of pressure groups to see the good of the nation as a whole. NAFTA is a large step forward, rejecting it would be an even greater step backward...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Resounding Yes | 11/17/1993 | See Source »

...make me feel any different, turning 75, than when I turned 45," he muses. "But when I see pictures of my 19 grandchildren and four great- grandchildren, I know some time has passed. I let days like that slip by and try to forget it. I'm not looking backward. I'm looking to the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: God's Billy Pulpit | 11/15/1993 | See Source »

...Orissa, a region in eastern India. After a brief stint at Delhi University, she came to Harvard, where she discovered "this foolish confidence that you can do anything." She also discovered her interest in film. Arriving in Cambridge, she intended to study theater but found the local acting scene backward and banal: "It was before Brustein was at the Loeb, and Oklahoma! was playing, endlessly. I just quit it and took a course in photography--which I loved, but not for my personality. It was too isolating, and I just loved to work with people. And that...propelled me into...

Author: By Ajitha Reddy, | Title: MIRA NAIR | 11/11/1993 | See Source »

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