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...deal is being cut," says an aide. On the campaign plane, he was known as "the Enforcer" for gently policing the quotes from staff members in the morning papers. When Begala once referred to President Bush's rear end ("If he wants to debate, he can get his butt up to Michigan"), it was Lindsey who told him to get out of macho overdrive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's People: Bruce Lindsey | 11/23/1992 | See Source »

...beer or two, and munch raw U.C. burgers. Then you go into the stands and watch that spheroid hurl down the field into the hands of Yale players. (We're going to lose.) But you'll pretend to have fun in the 20 degree weather anyway, discussing with your butt-cold friends your plans for the evening. Of course, there's always a chance that the Crimson will actually play a good game--it happened, after all, as recently as 1990 in New Haven. That would give us reason to cheer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Listings | 11/19/1992 | See Source »

...Frank Sinatra said he wanted to kick you in the butt when you rejected the national anthem, the actor Joe Pesci said he would have slapped you if he had been on the show when you ripped the picture, and a group smashed your records to protest what you had done. Why do you think it upsets people so much when you speak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People Need a Short, Sharp Shock: SINEAD O'CONNOR | 11/9/1992 | See Source »

...Lois Butt, a resident of Boston who has worked on past Republican campaigns, said, "I'm very disappointed about Clinton's victory. I'm especially disappointed that Bush didn't take the New England states...

Author: By Emily J. Tsai, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Patriotic Pomp Can't Disguise Gloom | 11/4/1992 | See Source »

None of these perfervid cultural make-overs, however, has driven the music itself to any heights of personal expression. "Chemical material don't you shudder?/ Something awful is happening we don't suspect" is one kick-butt refrain from Takagi Kan's Hip Hip Fork. "We can't control MSG/ Our tongue has become paralyzed." Takagi declares that his song is mainly "about MSG companies trying to make a lot of money in Asia," though there seems little risk that he will get boiled as Ice T did in America over his Cop Killer track...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rap Around the Globe | 10/19/1992 | See Source »

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