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...takes one home to the small-town general store where everyone is welcome, and time stands still. The seasoned staff is outgoing and friendly, ready to help make selections or chat it up with the customers. At Nini's the good life is the slow life; the giant glass cigar case encourages leisurely puffing. Nini's also boasts a special discount adult magazine kiosk, guaranteed to satisfy the bargain-minded Yard resident on his 18th. Tourists may purchase a Harvard postcard for thirty cents...

Author: By L. J. Powell, | Title: stand-off of the stands | 2/25/1999 | See Source »

Surely such contempt is validated and deepened now when he sees how unfailingly his tricksterism gets him through--a lechering Bugs Bunny who, at the end of this ghastly cartoon, flourishes a cigar instead of a carrot. (Henry Hyde, having taken over the Elmer Fudd role from Ken Starr, slumps off, looking perplexed.) I tell myself to get beyond this miasma--to think of the future. I will get over it...but not for a while. I try to think about forgiveness but am brought short by the knowledge that it requires repentance, and Clinton is congenitally unrepentant. Fish gotta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why I'm Still Angry | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

After a solid year of scum--a soiled blue dress, a scheme to buy silence, witness intimidation, and lies, lies, lies--you might think Bill Clinton would be ready to get back to doing his job. But you would be wrong. According to the New York Times, our cigar-abusing, bongo-thumping President plans to celebrate the Senate's highly charitable verdict by launching "an all-out offensive to knock off his foes." It's not enough for this self-absorbed wretch to defile the nation's highest office. Now he's dragging his whole party into the muck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How I'd Whip the Democrats | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

Most of the country now agrees that Bill Clinton is contemptible. It took a cigar and an intern before this realization, so obvious to many since the New Hampshire revelations of 1992, finally managed to penetrate the public consciousness. Now, as she ponders a run for the Senate, I wonder, what will it take before the people of this land come to the same rather obvious conclusion about Hillary...

Author: By Noah Oppenheim, | Title: Hillary, Go Back to Arkansas | 2/19/1999 | See Source »

...heightened fascination with things bosomy seems to have infected the world of men's magazines--the general-interest sort, I mean. This is largely due to Maxim, the British import, which, in its year-and-a-half of American existence, has shaken the world of cigar love and five steps to great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bosom Buddies | 2/15/1999 | See Source »

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