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Bush: I'm proud of the way you're standing up to that Nunn guy, Johnny. It reminds me of the time I stood up to Dan Rather when he gave me shit about Iran-Contra. I can't believe Nunn's worried about your social life when you were negotiating in Geneva. You'd think he never got turned on by a little piece of ass. I mean, if you're negotiating arms controls with the Ruskies, wouldn't you be getting a little horny, Boydsy...

Author: By Neil A. Cooper, | Title: Towerscam | 2/14/1989 | See Source »

...Actually, there's some pretty good remote country down there where we could hide a bunch of them. Contra country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Want to Be the President's Man | 2/13/1989 | See Source »

WASHINGTON--The chief justice yesterday ordered a delay in the start of Oliver North's Iran-Contra trial, but the independent prosecutor and the Justice Department later agreed on a plan aimed at letting the trial go ahead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: North's Trial Will Go Ahead As Planned | 2/12/1989 | See Source »

...danger of something being performed live is that "mistakes can be made." Real life does not always come out as perfectly as a script. Unfortunately for the witnesses of the Iran-Contra hearings Gelbart's script for Mastergate was never made available to them...

Author: By Esther H. Won, | Title: Is It Real, or Is It Memorex? | 2/10/1989 | See Source »

...congressional committee investigation in Mastergate has artfully captured the "whodunit" appeal of the real-life Iran-contra hearings. Set Designer Phillip Jung has fashioned the ART into a virtual facsimile of the congressional chambers. Chandeliers, oak tables, and even the ubiquitous scurrying page serve to paint a faithful picture of reality. To add to the reality or rather, surreality of the committee hearings, a network news investigation is conducted via closed circuit television throughout the play. Five television screens have been hoisted above the different seating sections to effect the play-like hearings, or rather, the hearing-like play...

Author: By Esther H. Won, | Title: Is It Real, or Is It Memorex? | 2/10/1989 | See Source »

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