Word: karens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...White House was Mike McCurry's quiet announcement Wednesday that FBI investigators had come calling on the President and the Vice President--the day before. For journalists, the stone wall is up. "None of us knows anything because they're not saying anything," says TIME White House correspondent Karen Tumulty. "The White House is referring everyone to the President's lawyer. And the President's lawyer isn't saying anything." Even seemingly innocuous details (like how long the sessions lasted) were under wraps as reporters were summarily referred to a statement by attorneys for the pair. "The subject...
...Reported by Ursula Sautter/Bonn and Dick Thompson and Karen Tumulty/Washington
...Reported by Michael Duffy and Karen Tumulty/Washington
...Four are "performance artists" to whom, several years ago, the National Endowment for the Arts awarded government grants. The most famous of the performers, Karen Finley, thrilled audiences by coating herself in chocolate and doing highly inventive autoerotic exercises with sweet potatoes. Some members of Congress, worried perhaps about the inevitable outcry from the tuber-rights community, deemed this an unworthy expenditure of tax dollars. The grants were rescinded--and a cause was born. The martyrs came ready-made, as did the name with the capitalized numeral Four, lending their cause a portentous...
...middle-class America is filled with Martha wannabes. It is not Ms. Stewart's business acumen, independence or insistence on quality that is being emulated. Women are becoming slaves to style and obsessive do-it-from-scratch projects. Somehow interior design has become confused with having an interior life. KAREN SAGE-STOCKWELL Danville, Calif...