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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Still, not all were pleased with the results of the referendum. A spokesperson for the reigning cock-fighting champion relayed his client's distaste for the people's vote, vowing to take the sport even further underground, into even dirtier back rooms of even seedier bars. All parties expect a court battle in the months ahead...

Author: By Noah Oppenheim, | Title: Democracy's Follies | 11/6/1998 | See Source »

...last-ditch attempt to force the Serbs to back down. "Milosevic hasn't given much ground in this week's meetings with Richard Holbrooke," says Waller. "NATO is hoping that having the activation order in his back pocket will give Holbrooke more leverage." So the West plans to cock its guns but keep them holstered to give Milosevic -- for real, now -- his last chance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Countdown on Kosovo | 10/9/1998 | See Source »

...becoming the mask of Pierrot) came out of their closet. "To displace," as Picasso described the process, "to put eyes between the legs, or sex organs on the face. To contradict. Nature does many things the way I do, but she hides them! My painting is a series of cock-and-bull stories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Artist PABLO PICASSO | 6/8/1998 | See Source »

...smiles and ponchos. Sinatra wore cuff links, roughly $30,000 worth in the mid-1950s, when that kind of money bought a house or two. In the Oedipal drama of the counterculture, Frank was the daddy-o who must die. He could swing his raincoat over his shoulder and cock his hat all night. Compared to Jim Morrison, he still looked like the man in the gray flannel suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ring-A-Ding Ding | 5/25/1998 | See Source »

...other lines, Ginsberg asks if Levinsky trembles when the cock crows and employs such words as dissemble, tearful and fearful. The Levinsky in the poem is actually Leon Levinsky, a relatively minor character in Jack Kerouac's first novel, The Town and the City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Mar. 2, 1998 | 3/2/1998 | See Source »

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