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Still, the idea of a Clinton-Tsongas ticket has appeal. Tsongas would bring integrity and credibility to a nominee perceived to be in short supply of both qualities. More important, he could attract independents and moderate Republicans fed up with Bush's inept handling of the economy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broke But Unbowed | 3/30/1992 | See Source »

Still, Buchanan poses several formidable problems for Bush at a time when he had hoped to breeze to renomination. As in New Hampshire, Buchanan could become a lightning rod for voters eager to send the President an angry message about his inept handling of the economy, and Buchanan might attract enough right-wing votes to erode Bush's fragile conservative base. Worse yet, Buchanan's attacks have turned the primary season into a referendum on Bush's performance, highlighting weaknesses that the Democrats can exploit in the fall. Says a campaign official: "Buchanan is not the problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republicans: How Bush Will Battle Buchanan | 3/2/1992 | See Source »

...before the first preview, a year-long national tour starting in September had already been booked around the U.S. But the $5.5 million staging of composer-lyricist Frank Loesser's comic gem will be hard pressed to equal the emotional impact of his Most Happy Fella, telling of an inept but earnest quest for love by a hulking, homely immigrant farmer in California's Napa Valley. The book, also by Loesser, is intermittently burdened with the same irritating cuteness and insincerity that lumbers Crazy for You and so many others of its ilk. The score, as well, has an overabundance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tap Dancing into Yesterday | 3/2/1992 | See Source »

...concoction of parental aspirations and that people dismiss his struggles as a relic of a politically incorrect stereotype. In one sweep, he accepts a negative stereotype for all Asian-Americans based upon his own struggles. It is not the stereotype of Asians being pre-meds being grade-grubbing, socially inept anal warts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Choi Misrepresents Asian-Americans | 2/15/1992 | See Source »

Kilbey's attempt to convey the hypocrisy of the hero's mission through a series of "disturbing" paradoxes reveals a cliched motive and an inept...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Look Mom No Head | 2/13/1992 | See Source »

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