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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...truly concerned him was that the press's eye had wandered since Clinton's Aug. 17 confession. Too many shows were going off-topic, too many talking heads exclaiming over Mark McGwire and showing boredom with Monica Lewinsky. It was fear of increasing scandal fatigue that prompted Gingrich's biggest blunder of the campaign: devising, testing and spending $10 million on TV spots reminding voters of what a snake the President was--a subject the electorate was trying to forget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alas, Poor Gingrich, I Knew Him Well | 11/16/1998 | See Source »

Gingrich barely listened. Nothing was going to slow him down on the biggest day of his life. "Yeah," he said. "We'll get around to that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fall Of The House Of Newt | 11/16/1998 | See Source »

Aside from the opposite sex, there may be nothing that mixes exhilaration and frustration quite like the Internet. Sure, we can drink from the world's biggest cup of knowledge, but for most of us, slow computer modems make it feel like we're sipping a chocolate shake through a cocktail straw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Waiting on the Web | 11/16/1998 | See Source »

Scandinavian designers are popular too, particularly Alvar Aalto and Arne Jacobsen. The U.S. is now the world's biggest buyer of Aalto's undulating but plainspoken furniture. Five years ago, it was only the 10th biggest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Back To The '50S | 11/16/1998 | See Source »

...STARR After four years and $40 million, his biggest casualty turns out to be the Speaker of the House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Nov. 16, 1998 | 11/16/1998 | See Source »

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