Word: memorex
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...After the rejection of Lewinsky live, the Senate settled for Memorex. By a 62-38 vote, those still-hungry Republicans won their multimedia moment: Members -- and the nation -- will get to see and hear Lewinsky tell her story, familiar though it may be. Will it change any minds? Doubtful. That point was driven home by Minority Leader Tom Daschle, who followed his defeat on the videotapes with another one: A symbolic effort to skip right to closing arguments, which lost along strict party lines. But even as their party split on the Lewinsky question, Republicans scored a small victory when...
...help thinking, Are these people really gay, or is it Memorex? When contacted by TIME, Anne Paulk refused to identify the woman with whom she had had a serious affair and conceded that her ties to women in college were "more emotional than sexual" anyway. But she insists "they would have led to sexual relationships" had they continued. Her husband, a former Kinko's manager now with Exodus, is more defensive about his wife's credentials. "It doesn't matter whether she dated 400 women or one. She was a lesbian." So there...
...phrase that rivals "preowned car" and "peacekeeping missiles" for disingenuousness. Many of the most popular activities, like gymnastics and swimming, take place during the day but are broadcast in the evening. To keep up the suspense artificially, NBC doesn't let on whether a segment is live or Memorex--and Tom Brokaw warns viewers to turn down the volume of the Nightly News lest they inadvertently hear the day's results...
HISTORY The new Civil Rights Museum: Is it real or is it Memorex...