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Actually, Clinton's debate performances - and her candidacy - don't seem quite so cautious or fudgy when you look at the transcript or travel with her on the trail. Her worst moments have come when she has tried to have it both ways on programs proposed by fellow New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Hillary Believes | 11/7/2007 | See Source »

The propensity of Democrats to be chuckleheaded in ways easily exploited by Republicans is what Clinton, in most cases, is trying to avoid with her lawyerly answers. Her refusal to support higher Social Security taxes on the wealthy is a perfect example. "For the life of me, I don't...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Hillary Believes | 11/7/2007 | See Source »

Predictably, he became the first Hollywood mogul to embrace television. The show with him as host for over a decade became not just a profit center for his company but also a promotional engine for all its works. These included chuckleheaded live-action comedies, nature documentaries that relentlessly anthropomorphized their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Walt Disney: Ruler Of The Magic Kingdom | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

Indeed, The Street Fighter has little else to offer in the way of novelty, save perhaps for Sonny Chiba, a stepchild of Jack Palance and Magog. The movie is Japanese in origin, not Chinese, as is customary, and contains some comic relief in the person of Chiba's chuckleheaded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Big Gouge | 3/17/1975 | See Source »

Indeed, throughout the first half of this century, Negro performers generally reinforced the debased stereotype. Pigmeat Markham, the originator of "Here come de judge," was the vaudeville ideal of the irresponsible, chuckleheaded Negro. Mantan Moreland was so hopelessly inept that he practically had to be spoon-fed by his boss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Communicating with Laughter | 4/6/1970 | See Source »

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