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...Marilyn Quayle, furious because George dumped Dan in '92, is over in Libya conspiring with Gaddafi. Gorby gave the U.S.S.R. his best shot, but it didn't work, so he defected, took a publishing job in Manhattan, and is dating Susan Sarandon. Noriega beat his drug rap, as we all knew he would, and is back in power in Panama. At the White House, President Clementine Fox is brooding about sending troops to dislodge him, and her peacenik husband Guy, the First Hubby, sourly tells her, "Have yourself a merry little isthmus." Got all that? Oh, yes, and Clementine became...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mud Pie Eaters | 6/25/1990 | See Source »

...Jerry Falwell and other Moral Majority leaders in protesting sex and violence on TV. Then something -- God knows what -- happened. Last year Turner's superstation WTBS banned all religious programming, including Falwell's Old-Time Gospel Hour. Now antiabortion activists, whom the cable mogul has publicly called "bozos," are furious because Turner's CNN broadcast an early National Park Service estimate of 60,000 supporters at the recent Washington rally, rather than the 500,000 claimed by pro-lifers. And, accepting an award as Humanist of the Year at a convention in Orlando, Turner, who has called Christianity a "religion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grapevine: May 14, 1990 | 5/14/1990 | See Source »

...atrocities on TV news shows are aberrations. It either closes its eyes to the human street litter -- the homeless, the junkies, the insane -- or blames them for not getting with the program of self-help economics. It largely ignores the ghetto, where the black underclass has built its own furious culture on the slag heap of Great Society failures. It discounts much of the young white working class, in tattered towns and trailer parks, who feel left out of bland, sitcom America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: X Rated | 5/7/1990 | See Source »

Silber was furious and ordered subordinates to notify Abramowitz that his housing contract would be terminated. The threat of expulsion from university housing was enough to bring the Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts (CLUM) into the fray...

Author: By Joshua A. Gerstein, | Title: Can Harvard Restrict Speech? | 4/18/1990 | See Source »

...Carlo Rubbia and Stanford's Burton Richter, are known for their relentless ambition, feisty competitiveness and monumental egos. All have already won Nobel Prizes, but that seems only to have increased their desire for greater achievements. In the rush to get results, they push their staffs mercilessly and are furious -- at least in private -- whenever they come in second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Ultimate Quest | 4/16/1990 | See Source »

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