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...wasn't joking, and it was as off-key in its own way as Dan Quayle's response in 1988 that the first thing he would do was pray. Like Quayle, Cheney has come to be seen as a drag on the ticket, violating the first rule of Veepdom: do no harm. First, there was his uncompassionately conservative record, voting no on everything from Head Start to college-student aid to the Older Americans Act, which offers support services to the elderly. This prompted the joke that Cheney's never met a welfare program he liked. When the New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Won't Dance, Don't Ask Me | 10/9/2000 | See Source »

...wacky, wacky, wacky! On floats, they had Greg Norman hitting golf balls into the crowd, Paul Hogan whip- cracking a bunch of prawns - a school of prawns? What do prawns travel in? - bicycles! Elle Macpherson taking her clothes off and Priscilla Queen of the Desert attended by scores of drag queens. So, then: an old golfer who can't win anymore; an old comedian who no longer makes the country laugh; an old model who, well, really, can't do much else besides take some clothes off, and never really could; and a woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wrap-up: Letter from Sydney | 10/2/2000 | See Source »

...musical number as the film plays and comment out loud about the events on screen ("I'm gay!" shout several people whenever Uncle Max announces he has a surprise for the children). Some younger kids might be frightened by the spectacle of hundreds of New Yorkers, a few in drag, belting out So Long, Farewell, but as it did in the London version of this extravaganza, the giddy collegiality will keep most older audience members happy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Sing-A-Long Sound Of Music | 10/2/2000 | See Source »

...wasn't joking, and it was as off-key in its own way as Dan Quayle's response in 1988 that the first thing he would do was pray. Like Quayle, Cheney has come to be seen as a drag on the ticket, violating the first rule of veepdom: Do no harm. First, there was his uncompassionately conservative record, voting no on everything from Head Start to college-student aid to the Older Americans Act, which offers support services to the elderly. This prompted the joke that Cheney's never met a welfare program he liked. When the New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Won't Dance, Don't Ask Me | 9/30/2000 | See Source »

...little worried. I'd rather not see this drag on for another year. This is turning out to be much more complicated than we had hoped to be," he said...

Author: By Joyce K. Mcintyre, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Named in Pudding Lawsuit | 9/25/2000 | See Source »

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