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Conservatives are huffing and puffing and threatening to blow the House down over Bush's flip-flop on "no new taxes". A similar outcry over his environmental duplicity is well-overdue...

Author: By John A. Cloud, | Title: Bush's Crimes Against Nature | 10/15/1990 | See Source »

JACKIE MASON: BRAND NEW. Well, not really. The Brillo-haired rabbi turned comic has been doing the same basic Borscht Belt act for decades, but he seems to have a tireless capacity for self-resuscitation. A year after a sitcom flop on ABC, a much publicized racial slight of New York City Mayor David Dinkins, and an embarrassing paternity suit, Mason is on the comeback trail, ! windmilling in three directions. His latest book, How to Talk Jewish, is to be published in January. His weekly talk show debuts on cable in December with a novel solution to the perennial problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Oct. 15, 1990 | 10/15/1990 | See Source »

...predicted first every season, but whose favorite finishing spot is second, enjoyed a splendid June that propelled them near the top of the N.L. East. For the other five months, though, the Mets have played just .500 ball, allowing the Pittsburgh Pirates -- a team too young to bathe in flop sweat -- nearly unimpeded access to first place. In the N.L. West, the Cincinnati Reds, champions-designate since their springtime sprint from the gate, curled up in a summerlong slumber. Only the mediocrity of their California pursuers -- the Dodgers, Giants and Padres -- clinched the division for the Reds and ensured Cincinnati...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Streaking Hard for the Top | 10/8/1990 | See Source »

ORPHEUS DESCENDING (TNT, premiering Sept. 24). Vanessa Redgrave dazzled London in a 1988 revival of Tennessee Williams' 1957 flop. Playing an Italian- American misfit in a small Southern town, she was less rapturously received in the subsequent Broadway production (the basis for this film). Still, her over-the-top performance fascinates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Sep. 24, 1990 | 9/24/1990 | See Source »

...COMPARISON to Silber, Frank Bellotti is just another politician. Throughout his relatively undistinguished career as lieutenant governor and, later, attorney general, Bellotti has chosen his positions with one hand measuring the winds of public opinion and the other covering his behind. In one of the most monumental flip-flops of Massachusetts politics, Bellotti--who brought a landmark parental consent case to the Supreme Court that would have severely restricted access to abortions--now says he supports the right to choose. And in a double flip-flop, Bellotti started his political career in 1964 as a supporter of the death penalty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Frank Bellotti | 9/18/1990 | See Source »

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