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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...validate" President Clinton's budget plan. The upside: "Al Gore's Cartoon Gallery," a video clip of Sen. Ted Kennedy reading from James Joyce's "Ulysses" and -- in the tradition of the "Socks" page on the White House Web site -- a discourse on the origin of the Democratic Party donkey. The GOP, whose supporters have a longer Internet track record, is gracious enough to include a link to "Liberal Lies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NETWATCH . . . THE ELECTRIC BLUE CAMPAIGN TRAIL | 6/27/1995 | See Source »

...hands of Nintendo, which is gambling that there is still some life left in the underpowered 16-bit systems. With an impressive piece of programming, Nintendo has managed to get games developed for the Ultra 64 to play on the old Super NES. The first of these was Donkey Kong Country, which conquered vidkids last year with its clever play and striking three-dimensional graphics. DKC ended up outgrossing most Hollywood movies (total number of copies sold in the U.S. so far: 3.5 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MORTAL KOMBAT | 5/22/1995 | See Source »

Barzani has accused Talabani of stealing $14 million from the Kurdish treasury and being a "jash," or donkey, as Kurds label collaborators with Baghdad. Talabani claims Barzani is pocketing cash from customs fees the Kurds levy on the 10,000 bbl. of diesel fuel Iraq secretly ships through Kurd territory to Turkey every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHERE FEUD AND FOLLY RULE | 3/27/1995 | See Source »

...Kamal says that Ozzy Osborne was the most interesting person. Osborne tried to simulate some of their routines, ya little donkey. "To hear him do an American accent--" Brennan says, "it was as funny as shit...

Author: By Daniel Altman, | Title: Jerky Boys Called on Their Pranks | 2/16/1995 | See Source »

...says video games are dead? Not this digital gorilla, fetched from the old arcade game and redrawn in eye-popping 3-D by the same Silicon Graphics computers that brought the dinosaurs to life in Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park. Donkey Kong Country has been Nintendo's smash hit of this Christmas season. In fact, the game in its first week of release in November brought in more money (nearly $35 million) than the Disney studio's box-office gorilla The Santa Clause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Products of 1994 | 12/26/1994 | See Source »

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