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...came home from World War II not alive or dead but in-between, boxed and crated in a plaster cast, shot up in so many places that he was reduced at 21 to a second infancy, learning all over again how to walk, eat, dress himself with clip-on ties and laceless shoes. How he fought his way from county attorney to Senate leader, driving for miles, stopping in front of every swaying porch lamp to beg, "Vote for Dole. Dole, like the pineapple juice." How he has triumphed in spite of his epithets: hatchet man, Nixon's water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUL OF DOLE | 8/19/1996 | See Source »

...Eyre--Paquin, 14, keeps the melancholy theme going in her next film, Fly Away Home. She plays Amy, who moves in with her estranged inventor father after her mother dies in a car crash. She has to teach wild geese she finds to fly, or a wildlife officer will clip their wings. At least she gets to cuddle something soft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 12, 1996 | 8/12/1996 | See Source »

...favorite word: parameters. It is a word he uses more than half a dozen times within the course of the two-hour HBO movie 'Gotti,' debuting on the cable network August 17 (9 p.m. EDT). In fact, he says it more often -->