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...novelized version of the real Senator) and turns out to have been fathered by a secret onetime English communist. Buckley offers not so much an ideological evaluation of McCarthy as a portrait of a live character and force of nature--country-boy chicken farmer, charmer, weasel, patriot, bully, loose cannon and for all that, the spokesman for a valid American intuition (fear, if you like). In an atmosphere compounded of the Soviet enslavement of Eastern Europe, the Hiss conviction, the detonation of the first Soviet nuclear bomb, the communist takeover of China and the invasion of South Korea, something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alger, Ales And Joe | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

...Neil Diamond doesn't make videos," I politely inform her. Now Tammy is starting to get nervous. I'm clearly a loose cannon. She decides to move things along to the final, cue card portion of my interview...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Editor's Note: Fame in the Name | 4/29/1999 | See Source »

...Neil Diamond doesn't make videos," I politely inform her. Now Tammy is starting to get nervous. I'm clearly a loose cannon. She decides to move things along to the final, cue card portion of my interview...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE AUDITION | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

...Storey's third chance to play the hero.But this time he didn't shoot. Instead, Storeyslid the puck across the ice to junior defensemanMatt Scorsune, who had moved out towards the leftside. Scorsune loaded the cannon and fired a blastthat completely blew past a screened Braun...

Author: By Richard S. Lee, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Extra Time No Charm For Icemen | 2/3/1999 | See Source »

...defend Pearl Harbor against Ernest Borgnine. Some may say, "But those were just movies," but that's the point! It was Frank's obligation as a celebrity to keep morale high on the home front. That is what we ask of our stars during wartime, not to become cannon fodder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ol' Black-and-Blue Eyes | 12/21/1998 | See Source »

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