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...whim. He coldly calculates every move. He is simply a brutal and very clever pragmatist." Adds TIME correspondent Dan Goodgame: "On meeting him, a visitor is first struck by his eyes, crackling with alertness and at the same time cold and remorseless as snake eyes on the sides of dice. They are the eyes of a killer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saddam Hussein: Master Of His Universe | 8/13/1990 | See Source »

...rain on Ted Turner's parade. The flamboyant entrepreneur and cable mogul wanted State to issue a visa to Jose Ramon Fernandez, the Cuban Vice President who oversees athletic development and competition, so that the official could accompany Cuba's delegation to the Goodwill Games in Seattle. No dice. A presidential directive bars Cuban Communist Party members from traveling to the U.S. for anything other than official business. The Goodwill Games, which have been plugged so insistently on Turner's TV outlets that some are calling them the Goodshill Games, do not qualify. "This is not a legitimate athletic competition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Revenge Of The Bureaucrats | 8/6/1990 | See Source »

NONE OF THE truly offensive people in America apply for NEA grants anyway. Andrew Dice Clay doesn't need government money; the public is giving him plenty. And if the public shells out millions to hear, "Robin Leach? I fucked him," on the big screen in Dolby stereo, it appears that community standards are pretty...

Author: By Stephen J. Newman, | Title: Take a Stand for Art | 7/17/1990 | See Source »

...person takes Andrew Dice Clay seriously, he's an idiot," said a student at Northeastern who identified himself only as Brian. "He's only a comic and he's doing what he believes in. It's a crude comedy, but no one can stop...

Author: By Jonathan M. Berlin, | Title: Andrew Dice Clay? | 7/13/1990 | See Source »

...audience--or at least the male portion of it--continued its vocal enthusiasm throughout the movie. Dice kept his racist and homophobic jokes to an uncharacteristic minimum, but the healthy repertoire of sexist jabs elicited screeches and wails of approval...

Author: By Jonathan M. Berlin, | Title: Andrew Dice Clay? | 7/13/1990 | See Source »

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