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...Dole's campaigns and PACs have taken from Big Tobacco during his career--could lure a politician into the kind of trap Dole sprang on himself last week. Off-camera, things were just as surreal. Dole was being stalked by a 7-ft.-tall cigarette named Mr. Butt Man, a Democrat who wheezes and coughs while passing out fake $1 bills emblazoned with a caricature of "Smokin' Bob Dole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN '96: PEERING THROUGH THE SMOKE | 7/15/1996 | See Source »

...response, Republicans decided to shower Butt Man with resumes, a none too subtle reference to the White House's own unhealable wound, Craig Livingstone, the White House personnel security chief who resigned in June after his deputy was caught sniffing through the confidential FBI files of some 900 people. Last week it came out that Livingstone's resume boasted of his work as a "Senior Consultant to Counter-Event Operations, Clinton-Gore '92," a fancy way of saying he spent part of that campaign recruiting volunteers to dress up in chicken costumes and taunt George Bush. When the "Chicken George...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN '96: PEERING THROUGH THE SMOKE | 7/15/1996 | See Source »

Wherever Bob Dole goes, expect Mister Butt Man. The Democratic National Committee is circulating instructions for party operatives to dress up as a walking cigarette and dog Dole, distributing so-called Dole Dollars that excoriate his tobacco policies. Says D.N.C. spokeswoman Amy Weiss Tobe: "We hope to have a Mister Butt Man in every state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Jul. 8, 1996 | 7/8/1996 | See Source »

Head Coach: Harry Parker (H), Charlie Butt...

Author: By Jal D. Mehta, | Title: Men's Lights Can't Shake Tigers; Heavies Falter | 6/6/1996 | See Source »

...case, some veteran musicians who haven't released albums in half a decade or longer may be poised to benefit from the current backward-gazing climate. These would include dance-pop butt wiggler turned contract-breaking auteur George Michael; gentlemanly crooner and former Commodore Lionel Richie, and punk poet Patti Smith. The trio have been lying low for reasons ranging from contract disputes (Michael) to personal problems (Richie went through a divorce in his time off, and his father passed away; during Smith's hiatus, her husband died). Normally, long-term hibernation isn't healthy for pop musicians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: OLDER BUT NOT WISER | 6/3/1996 | See Source »

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