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...same one who showed amazing aptitude for foreign affairs early on in the Bush administration by asking a group of Samoans. "Are we all happy campers?" The same Quayle who was photographed in ElSalvador pointing a rocket launcher at his elbow...

Author: By Jonathan N. Axelrod, | Title: The VP's Revenge | 9/21/1994 | See Source »

...chilling with us during its preliminary two-hour lecture. He, my brother and I were among the maybe 10 or 12,000 still hanging around, but after the rain that actually adds to the atmosphere: You know that everyone left loves the game, and besides, there's plenty of elbow room...

Author: By Darren Kilfara, | Title: Singing in the Rain, For Once | 9/20/1994 | See Source »

...military- civilian task force that will oversee the camps. Military spouses and children are being flown out because of electric-power and water rationing. But enough land is available to put up tents for the Cubans in clusters holding about 2,500 people each, and to keep plenty of elbow room between their quarters and those of the Haitians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cubans, Go Home | 9/5/1994 | See Source »

...months crisscrossing the country -- from Walnut Creek, California, to Leesburg, Virginia -- interviewing patients, nurses, insurance executives, Senators -- just about anyone with a voice or a stake in the decisions that Washington soon hopes to make. She talked to AIDS patients at San Francisco General and stood at the elbow of Dr. Wayne Isom as he performed open-heart surgery at New York Hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Our Readers: Jul. 18, 1994 | 7/18/1994 | See Source »

...human backside also gets a dozen pages. It is instructive to realize that a man can be so stupid that he doesn't know his a -- -- from a musket (earliest citation, 1862), his elbow, a hole in the ground, a stalk of bananas, a hot rock, Mammoth Cave, a hole in the wall, third base, his left foot, pork sausage, the back side of a checkerboard, ice cream or a pitchfork...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Substandard-Bearer | 7/4/1994 | See Source »

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