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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bush was still smarting from his defeat, it was hard to tell. Ever the gracious host, he walked outside to greet the President-elect on the South Lawn and ushered him in like the new boy at school. The air in the Rose Garden was otherwise unmistakably thick: Bush aides who normally cram the colonnade . to see famous faces stayed defiantly in their cubicles; a Bush press officer curtly warned his Clinton counterpart that the boxwood and the decorative cabbage plants were a no-spin zone. Inside the Oval Office, the atmosphere was warmer: with no aides present...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mr. Clinton Goes to Washington | 11/30/1992 | See Source »

Veteran's Day require a uniquely American sport which has been underrepresented in the holiday-association game. The choice, I think, is obvious: bowling. Bowling is about as American as a sport can get. Sure, it may have come form those lawn games over in Europe, but bowling has become a uniquely American sport: the hard wooden alleys, the psychedelic colored balls and who could forget the funky-looking shoes and shirts...

Author: By Ted G. Rose, | Title: Give V-Day a Sport | 11/11/1992 | See Source »

Northeastern (11-5-1) hates the stuff, and when the Crimson steps onto the pitch, it knows that Cumnock's lawn will be its greatest ally...

Author: By Y. TAREK Farouki, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Key to Stickwomen-Northeastern Game? The Grass (Not That Grass) | 10/28/1992 | See Source »

...SERB MILITIAMEN FROM BOSNIA lounged on deck chairs and sofas on the unkempt lawn of what was a Muslim home in Kozarac. The former owners had been swept out at the end of May. Now, rifles at their feet, the fighters smoked cigarettes as they leafed through comics and pornographic magazines. Dragan Zamaklaar, 22, in jeans and cowboy boots, dragged heavily on a Marlboro. Then he began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cleansed Wound | 9/14/1992 | See Source »

...corny, schlocky and dumb song about a guy who doesn't know how to fix appliances. It was all over the top-40 stations. It had a ridiculous rap segment ("Don't call me when your toaster won't pop up, don't call me just to cut your lawn") and for some reason I thought it was funky as hell. My taste had plummeted through the floor...

Author: By David S. Kurnick, | Title: Dig This Fluffy, Funky Groove | 8/21/1992 | See Source »

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