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...where he threatened to blow his "cork" if the phrase "$40 million" (as in "$40 million investigation") was repeated again. On the air, he said he was "personally offended" by Clinton's attack; in the hallway, he called the President a "jerk" (as close to a four-letter epithet as Hatch ever gets). Salt Lake Tribune reporter John Heilprin, shadowing Hatch, reported that his press secretary praised the usually placid Senator: "Stay passionate, Orrin. That's good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blowing His Stack | 8/31/1998 | See Source »

...George Steinbrenner with a voice" was the epithet coined by a colleague of mine--born in the baby boom's dead center, it should be noted--who objects to the bad-hair Republican bluster of Sinatra's later years, his belting out of all those anthems of middle-aged self-assertion. He did it his way. He can make it anywhere. He picks himself up and gets back in the race--that's life, or Sinatra's blowhard version of it anyway. It is the artfully projected world view of a casino entertainer, a glorified greeter, whose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANK SINATRA: The Singer | 6/8/1998 | See Source »

...that stand as an epithet, then. Walsh's club stole, bunted, sacrifice flied, hit and ran and, it seemed, positively willed its way to a third-place finish in its second NCAA Regional in as many years...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Baseball Repeats as Ivy Champs, Upsets Tulane at Regionals | 6/4/1998 | See Source »

...opinion, neither the city of Boston nor the nation itself possesses the interracial maturity to manage the use of a racial epithet on the cover of a mainstream magazine like Boston Magazine," said Wallace-Benjamin...

Author: By M. DOUGLAS Omalley, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: NAACP Rips Gates Headline | 4/9/1998 | See Source »

...appreciate greatly that not once was the word obscene mentioned in your article. Epithet too easily used which assailed unanimously the appearance of "Interpretation of Dreams" by Freud, psychologic document which is and always will remain in spite of all the most important and sensational of our epoch. SALVADOR DALI Carmel, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sounding Off, Talking Back | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

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