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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...guessed it--Social Security, along with the space program, tax cuts, the budget and education. Gingrich declined. In truth, Gingrich had no gripe with the media over its Monica obsession, which allowed him to stoke it quietly behind the scenes. What truly concerned him was that the press's eye had wandered since Clinton's Aug. 17 confession. Too many shows were going off-topic, too many talking heads exclaiming over Mark McGwire and showing boredom with Monica Lewinsky. It was fear of increasing scandal fatigue that prompted Gingrich's biggest blunder of the campaign: devising, testing and spending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alas, Poor Gingrich, I Knew Him Well | 11/16/1998 | See Source »

...real horror in Blindness is therealization that humanity is not in control ofitself--that at the root of all hope, ambition anddreams lies an apathetic demon shrouded in ablinding white nothingness. This stale emptinessis unnoticed by the seeing. Eyes allow one tocover oneself in images, to construct oneselfcomfortably out of the things one sees--to blindoneself, in essence, to the true nature ofhumanity. When sight is gone, and the eye isforever turned inward, the horrifying epiphanythat life is white, pure nothing becomes, inBlindness, the deepest horror imaginable

Author: By Erin E. Billings, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Among the Blind, Chaos is King | 11/13/1998 | See Source »

...since major labels then weren't afraid to sign bands like the Stooges or the MC5 or the Modern Lovers. All these bands were commercial flops, so it's understandable that labels were chastened, but each produced a body of art that ought to have bands like Third Eye Bland and Dave bleedin' Matthews throwing themselves off bridges in shame, or at least wetting themselves with envy...

Author: By Ben Mckean, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Boston Big-Shot Returns to Bean-Town | 11/13/1998 | See Source »

...just trying to watch the movie, when out of the corner of my eye I saw a truck coming right at us," said Kevin Williams '02. "It scared the chip...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fritos Truck Hits Young Investors | 11/13/1998 | See Source »

...thought they were girls, especially the middle one." Today's boy wonders look more and more like someone's little brother (or sister, for that matter) than bastions of masculinity. In the past, Elvis had his muscled pelvic gyrations and the members of Duran Duran, under all the eye shadow and leather, were still unquestionably...

Author: By Terry E-E Chang, | Title: Idol Hands Do the Devil's Work | 11/12/1998 | See Source »

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