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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scent of blood is in the air. Newt Gingrich's ethical woes and flip-flopping on the budget may not yet be mortal wounds, but predatory scrambling is already evident. Supporters of Representative Tom DeLay of Texas, the third-ranking Republican in the House, have been saying aloud that if "Gingrich goes down" to defeat at the polls or as a victim of ethics charges, DeLay will be there to "pick up the pieces." Presumably they mean he will be there too if Newt loses the support of the conservative true believers who have thus far fueled his so-called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook, Feb. 12, 1996 | 2/12/1996 | See Source »

...fact, his campaign owes a debt to Gingrich, who in 1994 did the most to convince people that the government had replaced the Soviets as their mortal enemy: it overtaxed its citizens, divided families, squandered the nation's resources and disseminated softheaded values. But a year after their declaration of war, Gingrich and Dole lie bloodied in the budget trenches, and the political climate is if anything more divisive, unpleasant and ineffective than at any time in memory. Pollsters find that voters are at once unsated and disgusted: if the Republicans have faltered, the resentment against Washington politicians remains more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN '96: KNOCK 'EM FLAT | 1/29/1996 | See Source »

There is a double-jointed consciousness at work in the dramatics of big weather. Down in the snowstorm, we are as mortal as the deer. I sink to my waist in a drift, I panic, my arms claw for an instant, like a drowning swimmer's, in the powder. Men up and down the storm collapse with coronaries, snow shovels in their hands, cheeks gone a deathly color, like frostbitten plums...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE RELIGION OF BIG WEATHER | 1/22/1996 | See Source »

...they go through veal cutlets"? She tries, in the best modern fashion, to intellectualize her desires: "One of the things that interests me about sex is that it is a conspiracy of improvised myths. Very effective in evoking forbidden or hidden wishes." But she knowingly places herself in increasingly mortal danger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: CUT FROM A DEEPER CLOTH | 11/20/1995 | See Source »

...must be true--nothing else makes sense. Yesterday's win over New Hampshire was too perfect for a mere mortal to conceive...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: Perfection | 10/11/1995 | See Source »

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