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...immigration. By taking these issues, as well as the fiscal issues, out of play, President Clinton succeeded in taking away virtually every potentially effective issue that Dole and the Republicans could have hoped to use. One of the reasons why commentators are now busily writing stories about the inept Republican campaign is that President Clinton simply took away each and every issue the Republicans had used successfully over the past four presidential elections. Dole's weakness was not that he was unpopular--his favorability rating stayed in the mid-to-upper 50s throughout the fall; it was that he lacked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHY OUR GAME PLAN WORKED | 9/18/1996 | See Source »

Knowing I am getting what I deserve, I am content to admit that I am inept at keeping house. And even if I hadn't admitted it myself, I am getting my just desserts...

Author: By Corinne E. Funk, | Title: Becoming a Homemaker--Slowly | 6/28/1996 | See Source »

...learn an important lesson: I was not destined to follow in Mailer's footsteps. My first serious effort at fiction was so inept that, rereading it a couple of weeks later, I burst out laughing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Learning the Material That Won't Be Tested | 6/4/1996 | See Source »

...automatons Tom Servo (operated and voiced by Kevin Murphy) and Crow T. Robot (Beaulieu again) and forced them to watch bad films: Ed Wood classics like Bride of the Monster and stuff way, way worse, like the 1965 Attack of the the Eye Creatures--a movie so inept that its makers put the word the twice in the title. Mike and the 'bots crack wise; we laugh; that's about it. This simple, supple premise allows for pop-cultural japes, low banter and a nice, acidy undertaste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: ROBOCRITICS TAKE FLIGHT | 4/22/1996 | See Source »

...quiet, immature, very bright in math and science. He was just a whiz. But he was socially inept.... He wasn't interested in girls, he didn't play sports, and he wasn't much of a musician...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEWSPEAK | 4/9/1996 | See Source »

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