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...fact, the Al Franken Decade had to be the single greatest attempt to break the tyranny of history and make sure that we don't get our personal significance squashed into the crude oil to be sold in some later millennium for $1.18 a gallon...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: My Couple of Years | 2/29/1992 | See Source »

When New Hampshire residents vote in the primaries next Tuesday, these concerns should affect their decisions more than the crude iconography of George Bush the war hero and Bill Clinton the philanderer...

Author: By Jendi B. Reiter, | Title: Candidate Quick Fix | 2/12/1992 | See Source »

...couple of the duets are silly fun: the postwaltz era of male dominance in dance ("Besides the obvious indignity of him dictating the moves, how the hell were you supposed to know what he would do next?") and a number with the wonderfully wry O'Day in crude drag, set to Tammy Wynette's country-song-of- the-month, Stand By Your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Twyla Tharp's Sexy New Twirls | 2/10/1992 | See Source »

Jeffrey Dahmer's deeds beggar the imagination. The 31-year-old former chocolate-factory worker, who is charged with the murder of 15 young men, reportedly drugged some victims and performed crude lobotomies on them in an attempt to create zombie-like companions. He had sex with some corpses and dismembered bodies, tossing hands in a kettle and storing a severed head in the refrigerator as well as a heart to be eaten later. Who doubts that Dahmer's behavior is mad? But is he insane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trials: Do Mad Acts a Madman Make? | 2/3/1992 | See Source »

Collective judgments based on gossip are always crude, often stupid, and sometimes stir up a lynch mob. Anyway, the standards vary absurdly. Why is it all right for Bob Kerrey to divorce his wife and invite an actress, Debra Winger, to move into the Nebraska Governor's mansion for a time (the Nebraskans loved that touch of glamour) and wrong for Bill Clinton to stay married to his wife and work through their troubles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Cares, Anyway? | 2/3/1992 | See Source »

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