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...several achingly small inches, he might so easily had ended the valet's search up and down the closet for Augusta's newest green jacket...

Author: By Darren Kilfara, | Title: The Noble Loser | 4/11/1994 | See Source »

There will be no fireworks because senators--their political allegiances notwithstanding--tend to coddle each other, to pat each other on the back. You needn't be a closet Kantian to understand their moral calculus: unearth unseemly moments in his past and he'll have his staff pore over your third-grade evaluations until your own paper-trail of moral excesses emerges...

Author: By Samuel J. Rascoff, | Title: Dilettantism, Washington-Style | 4/8/1994 | See Source »

...need any new suits for the rest of my life," Bush claims, surveying his high-tech closet, which holds about 25 dark ensembles from his White House days. He polishes his own shoes and cowboy boots, taking pride in a collection of special creams and pastes and an electric buffer, which he brandishes like a weapon. He knows all the kitchen gadgets, cleans up the dishes, measures his vodka martinis by eye. Barbara's passion is a special wrapping room with ribbon and paper holders for the endless stream of birthdays that confront them. The walls and tables...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: The Grandfather in Chief | 3/28/1994 | See Source »

After you've dug your swimsuit out of the bottom of your closet and proclaimed to anyone within earshot that you are going to come back with a tan, you might start to think about the place you are going to visit. Do you need a visa? What's the drinking age? Are American condoms readily available? This will not be, after all, a mind-broadening, different-lifestyle-experiencing, cultural trip. It will be hot and seething with alcohol and debauchery...

Author: By Daniela Bleichmar, | Title: Young Gringos | 3/24/1994 | See Source »

...someone wants to look at something from the closet, we take their ID, but we never question them," Tallent said...

Author: By Michael R. Colton, | Title: Voulting Playboys | 3/17/1994 | See Source »

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