Word: feds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...blue suits and ties, ignoring the sweat on their faces (as did the adoring blond wives at their sides), two self-confident moderates proclaiming themselves The Answer, The Change. They will rescue us from our malaise, says Clinton, because Americans don't really hate politics, we are just "fed up with failure" -- and failure is decidedly not what these two survivors are about. How could it be? Clinton and Gore lust for the pinnacle, but their motives are pure: "I tell you truthfully," said Gore with a straight face (the same Gore, by the way, who previously derided...
...soon realized, it is oh-so-much worse. Eating ten slices of sausage and onion pizza with extra garlic would have given me pleasant dreams compared to the nightmares I had from the sludge that Gilbert Godfried, host of USA network's "Up All Night," force-fed me. Okay, I wasn't exactly force-fed. I could've gone to bed or read a book or taken a walk, but I didn...
...cast FAME'S PERIL (pocket Books; $19). Harrison Ford could play ace reporter Jack Werts -- a man's man fed up with the Hollywood newsbeat and a dedicated chaser of bimbos. Ceci McCann, ambitious blond TV reporter, could be played by any number of ambitious blond starlets. And Robert Redford could play the star turned director whose son is kidnapped. In a slick comic-book thriller, TIME contributor Martha Smilgis works a writer's hustle (Is it a book, or is it a screenplay?) in the area she knows best, Hollywood and % entertainment news. And in the tradition of Cecil...
...case, we fed off each other. Room 427 in Next House--or room W71-427, if you like--became the headquarters of a mental guerrilla war. Nearly every day, both Sameer and I found new and exciting reasons to hate the Institute. Then at the end of the day each of us returned home and traded stories...
...nagged. A senior executive who agreed with many of his criticisms says he was rebuffed when he tried to work with Perot. His explanation: "I learned that you can't be 90% for Ross Perot. You have to be with him all the way." GM in 1986 got so fed up with Perot that it paid him $700 million for his stock just to get him out and shut...