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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Brentwood is about money, says Richard McNeil, who manages the Brentwood Cigar Club. After his acquittal, O.J. began hanging around the cigar shop because the owners had hired two "very attractive airhead blonds" to minx around the place. Live bait for local libido. It backfired. When other customers saw O.J., they walked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ain't We Got Fun | 2/16/1998 | See Source »

...Exactly! He'd take the bait. This is a guy with so little judgment that he was going to accept a deanship financed by Scaife at Pepperdine, a place that wouldn't show up on any law-school ranking that did not also include some vo-techs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Give Me a Break! | 2/16/1998 | See Source »

...Lewinsky has taken up press time, Clinton has gone on the legislative offensive. Chait points to a memo released by Christina Martin, Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich's press secretary, that cautioned fellow Republicans not to criticize the President's political plans. She writes: "Don't take the bait. The White House is setting up straw men on popular issues, hoping to draw us into bloody fights, so they can demagogue that we are `against' the environment, the elderly, the poor, the sick, and the young." Whatever your feelings about the Republican predilection to, in fact, be against...

Author: By Talia Milgrom-elcott, | Title: Bipartisan Games | 2/9/1998 | See Source »

...BOXER Oscar bait: Daniel Day-Lewis' movie about Northern Ireland opens to rave reviews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Jan. 12, 1998 | 1/12/1998 | See Source »

...POSTMAN Video-store bait: Kevin Costner's movie about post-apocalyptic America sinks like a stone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Jan. 12, 1998 | 1/12/1998 | See Source »

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