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Finally, the resentment of doctors -- especially prosperous American doctors -- is an afterimage of the '60s, that crucial decade in the character formation of the people who now rule us. Back when Bill Clinton wore a beard and Hillary Rodham wore glasses, right-thinking college students were much taken with the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Barefoot Doctors V. Scroogecare | 1/10/1994 | See Source »

Once O'Neill arrived, Curley gave him anexplanation. First, O'Neill bored people; second,he talked down to them instead of to them; andthird, he didn't leave them with a message theyremembered.

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: Speaker O'Neill Dies at 81 | 1/7/1994 | See Source »

And just when the U.C. had gotten us bored,

Author: By G.k. Wenceslas, | Title: Intimations of Crimson Munificence | 12/20/1993 | See Source »

The Dragons Are Singing Tonight, by Jack Prelutsky (Greenwillow; $15). They sure are, in rum-tiddly-pum verse designed for surefire (no trick at all, for dragons) recitation. Sample: "I'm bored with my bad reputation/ For being a miserable brute/ And being routinely expected / To brazenly pillage and loot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Wild Things Roam | 12/20/1993 | See Source »

CONCLUSION Run on down you maggot you punk you white-bread college-ed bored and ignored to the store with th'most music and give them yer money, honey, for volumes numeros one and two and one two three and get DOWN in yer Dunster suites with the thick grooves...

Author: By Seth Mnookin, | Title: Make It Funky | 12/9/1993 | See Source »

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