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...works may even be considered downright raunchy...

Author: By Rodrigo Cruz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Loeb Renovates Classical Literature Series | 3/19/1998 | See Source »

...director's understanding of Clinton allowed him to create a presidential portrait that in many ways is more damning than any right-wing caricature, because it feels so real. Largely completed before America had heard of Lewinsky, the film comments on the scandal in ways that are downright eerie. Just as the public doesn't know what actually happened between Clinton and Monica--or Clinton and Gennifer Flowers, for that matter--so the movie refuses to spell out what did or didn't happen between Stanton and the women he is accused of bedding. Since unresolved questions and muddied waters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tale Of Two Bills | 3/16/1998 | See Source »

...croons Lord, while McGhee repeats the chorus, "Ooh, ooh, my butter" over and over. Whether the butter she is singing of is metaphorical or literal is hard to decipher from this song, as it moves between the raunchy and the mundane quite freely. Some of its lyrics are downright sappy, such as "If love needs a reason/then mine is/I ain't been the same/since I met you baby." However, the sensual culinarity of "Butter," sandwiched between boring lyrics, does not get lost--if anything, it reaches a boiling point and turns explosive with an excellent use of pop instrumentals. "Butter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Make This Love `Connection' | 3/13/1998 | See Source »

Campbell, himself the lone dissenter, has presented an absurd and tragically puny argument. It is downright common sense that when examining and eventually, if necessary, impeaching a member of an organization, said member is temporarily displaced from the examining entity (in this case, the Executive Board) in all motions related to the inquiry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BGLTSA Impeachment Fair | 2/26/1998 | See Source »

...experts seem unwilling to do so. This became particularly apparent at the annual meeting of the FDA Vaccine Advisory Panel, convened two weeks ago in Bethesda, Md., to decide what flu strains should be targeted for next year's flu vaccine. Ordinarily these meetings are routine, if not downright boring. But this year the committee devoted half the day to the Hong Kong outbreak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Flu Hunters | 2/23/1998 | See Source »

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