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...Right--I invested in a small bouteille of Wild Turkey, into which to peer as swathes of elephants prepared to tread and defecate on major states. The Kennedy School of Government was already in Democratic rapture, as I cunningly displaced two old ladies from their front-row seats ("Look madam, there's free sex over there"--and off they rushed). But, decadently supine on my purchased seats, I felt it unwise to trust polls and estimates favoring Clinton. In Britain they are usually wildly askew, as the selfish tax-evaders exculpate their vices in regular lying to pollsters...

Author: By Tony Gubba, | Title: For the Moment | 11/12/1992 | See Source »

...machines (confiscated in various political campaigns and held by a compliant police force until the zealots had moved on). A natural stinginess soon made him give up on machines that gobbled his money and gave so little back. Like the other boys, he called up Maxine, the best-known madam, to tie up the line she used for customers. "We did it mainly to hear her cuss -- we never heard a woman use language like that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bill Clinton : Beginning Of the Road | 7/20/1992 | See Source »

...shine, since the film's idea of charm is misguided. Lovable little Crutchy (Marty Belafsky), a disabled newsboy with a heart of gold, personifies the film's would-be winsome side. Ann Margret, done up in orange and fuchsia as a vaudeville star who looks more like a madam, particularly strains the limits of innocent...

Author: By Ozan Tarman, | Title: Singing and Dancing Newsboys | 4/23/1992 | See Source »

Hundreds of college students will be employed by political action committees this summer. What do their job application letters say? Certainly not what the students are thinking: "Dear Sir or Madam: Next to our president, your organization is the single greatest obstruction to the effective functioning of a dignified government. I am repulsed by what you do and appalled by the suggestion that I would work...

Author: By Tom S. Hixson, | Title: Lick Me, You Fool ! | 2/25/1992 | See Source »

Weiss effectively plays both Madam Lucetta and Silvia. Her Madam Lucetta, Julia's servant, is nosy but avoids caricature. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said of Scully or of Ashley. Over-acting reduces both of their characters to flat stereotypes that quickly become tiresome...

Author: By Carol J. Margolis, | Title: Verona Trite Yet Well-Directed | 3/15/1991 | See Source »

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