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...Commerce would use harsher language to reject the Clinton approach. Earlier in the week, Clinton offered to trade away two key elements of Magaziner's design in order to win support from Republican Governors. But through it all, Magaziner was upbeat. Clinton, he reported with a tone of mock confidence, was at a prayer breakfast across town with religious leaders. "After 14 hours of protracted negotiations," he joked, "Mother Teresa will not endorse the Cooper bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Plan: DOA? | 2/14/1994 | See Source »

...infiltrate themselves into scenes in order to get a sense of self-worth from their new acquaintances: the "did it feel good/ when it felt good" that opens up each chorus comes off, you'll have to take my word for this, as the angriest possible way imaginable to mock the poor guy the song is trying to mock. Another high point is "Zero in Trust," which was also aMINIATURE's first single last year. There may not be another record this good that rocks this hard for a while--one reason for which might be that everyone more talented...

Author: By Steve L. Burt, | Title: ONE CHORD WONDERS | 2/10/1994 | See Source »

Only a few years ago, viewers of very, very late-night TV were treated to a mock talk show more entertaining than most of the real ones. The host of the show was Lyle Waggoner, and its purpose was to tout a purchasable cure for impotence. Here was celebrity hawking at its historic low: an infomercial for a bogus product endorsed by a TV "star" whose glory days (as The Carol Burnett Show cast member who most resembled George Hamilton) came during the Nixon Administration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Make Way for the Sellevangelists | 1/31/1994 | See Source »

...December, initiates of the Delphic finalclub allegedly posed as Harvard Independentreporters to hold a mock interview and photosession with Walton

Author: By Marcus R. Wohlsen, | Title: Bobbitt Prank On WAC Hits Yard | 1/14/1994 | See Source »

...bunker. Everyone was taken outside in a group. None of our guys knew what the - Serbs were saying, but their gestures were aggressive and angry. They fired to the left and to the right of our troops. I can't in all good conscience say it was a mock execution -- there wasn't any system to it. They shot and killed a passing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dispatches: Another Day of Peacekeeping | 1/10/1994 | See Source »

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