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Like every other trend in pop music, the new pot proselytizing has inspired its own paraphernalia. Some aficionados hollow out Phillies Blunt cigars and fill them with dope. (For those unsure of the technique, rapper Redman's new song How to Roll a Blunt provides instructions.) PHILLIES BLUNT T shirts have gone mainstream, sometimes topped off with the marijuana-leaf baseball caps that have replaced X caps as the hot hat on the street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hello Again, Mary Jane | 4/19/1993 | See Source »

That's the first and last romantic view of Charlie Kate, a blunt and righteous woman who eats garlic on toast for breakfast, smells of mothballs and ties her "resolute shoes" with 30-year-old laces soaked every Sunday in linseed oil ("My shoestrings," she says, "have lasted years longer than most people can stand each other"). An eccentric who knows as much about Thomas Hardy's novels as she does about cirrhosis of the liver, Charlie Kate is in fact a healing genius who uses herbal cures like evening primrose and Saint-John's-Wort, as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine Woman | 4/12/1993 | See Source »

From downtown Manhattan to the plains of Texas to the mountains of Bosnia, religious hatred can become a blunt instrument that ultimately destroys believer and nonbeliever alike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 3/15/1993 | See Source »

...proposing so blunt a program, especially so huge a tax hike, Clinton was feeding raw meat to his Republican opponents. In the hours before the speech, G.O.P. lawmakers were already displaying a banner reading, IT'S THE SPENDING, STUPID! Radio blowtorch Rush Limbaugh bet the Democratic National Committee $1 million that by Jan. 1, 1995, inflation, unemployment, interest rates and the federal deficit will all be higher and that Clinton's approval rating in the polls will be 45% or less. David Wilhelm of the D.N.C. replied with a counteroffer: If the Clinton plan works, Limbaugh will have to give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bill Clinton: Working the Crowd | 3/1/1993 | See Source »

...Marshall] was a blunt man, a funny man, a man of great color," said Houston in his opening remarks...

Author: By Jonathan P. Hooks, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Professors Laud Marshall Legacy | 2/23/1993 | See Source »

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