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...cancer." This tactic extends to volunteering the fact that he required the assistance of a media coach to spice up his oatmeal style. In the past month his performance has risen from dreadful to mediocre, but his TV spots still use an announcer's voice rather than his drone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Democrats: Tsongas' Surprising Surge | 2/17/1992 | See Source »

...paganism, pop culture, androgyny, sexual conflicts -- but what has drawn the media with magnetic force is the author's contempt for modern feminists. Paglia writes with freshness and blithe arrogance, and she does not hesitate to hurl brazen insults. She accuses author Germaine Greer, for example, of becoming "a drone in three years," sated with early success. Susan Sontag is another victim of celebrity. Princeton feminist Diana Fuss's output is "just junk -- appalling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bete Noire of Feminism: CAMILLE PAGLIA | 1/13/1992 | See Source »

...been very impressed with Gates for the amount of work he has been doing. "Gates is a workaholic who loves it and who does it with a smile on his face," says Kilson. "He is a roll-up-the-sleeves leader type. He is a queen ant and a drone combined...

Author: By Julian E. Barnes, | Title: Afro-Am On The Rebound | 6/6/1991 | See Source »

...allied troops had built in Saudi Arabia sand berms and replicas of the other Iraqi entrenchments and practiced breaching them until they could virtually do it blindfolded. Among the tactics: Remotely piloted vehicles, or pilotless drone planes, guided soldiers to the most thinly held spots in the Iraqi lines. Line charges, or 100-yd.-long strings of tubing laced with explosives, blasted paths through minefields. Tanks and armored personnel carriers drove through those paths in long, narrow files, observing strict radio silence. Their drivers communicated by hand signals -- even in the dark, when night-vision devices worked perfectly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battleground | 3/11/1991 | See Source »

...striking ones: about 40 Iraqis tried to surrender to an RPV, turning round and round, waving their arms as the pilotless drone circled above. An Iraqi tank and another armored vehicle bore down on a U.S. Humvee driven by a lone soldier and stuck helplessly in mud. The Iraqi vehicles pulled the Humvee out of the mire; then their crews surrendered to its driver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battleground | 3/11/1991 | See Source »

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