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...dab butter...

Author: By Michael E. Farbiarz, | Title: Dining, Haute-Style | 12/9/1993 | See Source »

...main teacher. Kingsley does have a charismatic gravity and the carriage of -- Fred Waitzkin's phrase -- "a ruined aristocrat." In portraying a teacher whom Josh refers to as "a great friend, a wonderful man," Kingsley also has a touch of the bullying pedant in him, a dab of Wackford Squeers. "I was just never that mean," says Pandolfini, a famous soft touch. "I hope not, anyhow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chess's Wise Child | 8/9/1993 | See Source »

...Airport with a full crew aboard for close to an hour. The Secret Service says it put no hold on traffic; nonetheless, two runways were closed and at least two flights delayed. Just a day earlier in New Mexico, Clinton had had his sideburns and neck shaved and a dab of makeup applied. "He got his neck shaved?" asked an incredulous White House official. "He might as well have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shear Dismay | 5/31/1993 | See Source »

...talking, G-men gripe about a certain goofiness in Sessions' demeanor. Gary Penrith, former chief of the FBI's Newark, New Jersey, office, remembers briefing Sessions on a major racketeering case. Suddenly, Penrith says, Sessions burst into song, chirping the lyrics of an old advertising jingle: "Brylcreem, a little dab will do ya." Penrith, who quit last year, regards his former boss with contempt. "He loses it," said Penrith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Under Fire at the FBI | 2/22/1993 | See Source »

...evacuate wounded to Yerevan, the Armenian capital. A stretcher bearing a woman in her 50s, her face scarred and swollen, was lifted aboard. She had lost both her legs to a GRAD missile the night before. Her husband, pale and exhausted, said nothing as he bent down to dab her lips with a moist cloth. After takeoff, the plane rose level with the white tops of the mountains that define Karabakh. The sounds of a war in progress fell away, replaced by the soft moan of one more of its victims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Former Soviet Union Carnage in Karabakh | 4/13/1992 | See Source »

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