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...year-old intern performing oral sex on the President while he talks by phone to a Congressman about the fate of Americans stationed in Bosnia. It is one thing to turn the Lincoln Bedroom into a campaign ATM machine, another to turn the Oval Office into a hot-sheet motel. It is one thing for the President to invoke the cleansing powers of repentance. It is another to suggest that he deserves to serve out his term so that he can help teach our children about integrity and show by example that "God can change us and make us strong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: We, The Jury | 9/21/1998 | See Source »

...film won't be simply a colorized version of the old one. Costumes and sets have been given a '90s touch. The famed Bates Motel, made more Martha Stewart gothic than Herman Munster Victorian, now accepts the Discover card. In one hardware-store scene a Gulf War poster hangs on a wall not far from a sign advertising knife-sharpening services. Grazer asked that the film be "scarier and sexier." While some nudity and language that Hitchcock ditched due to the censorship restrictions of his day were restored, Van Sant has struggled to resist sheer exploitation. "I never thought this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: His Own Private Psycho | 9/7/1998 | See Source »

...knew what to do about it. Even in his beach-bum days, Buffett had been an effective businessman, handling his own bookings, keeping the club owners passably honest, locking himself in his motel room to go over the accounting ledgers. So now he spent freely to turn his concerts into spectacles, building elaborate stage sets with erupting volcanoes and such. He also tightened up the music and hired the Trinidadian steel-drum virtuoso Robert Greenidge. Eventually he brought in clowns on stilts and a storyteller for the children and sent bands into the parking lot to play for the fans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Still Rockin' In Jimmy Buffett's Key West Margaritaville | 8/17/1998 | See Source »

...three-day weekend, it is her only vacation away from her job as a computer specialist in Edinboro, Pa., and this is what she gets: a hard single bed with threadbare sheets in a sweltering, non-air-conditioned room; a warped desk and chair that would be rejected by Motel 6; and simple meals like baked beans or tuna casserole. And for the whole weekend she is supposed to be silent. But as she walks across the abbey's 2,200 acres, past the wheat fields and down by the river, or sits near a statue of the Madonna, watching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Get Thee To a Monastery | 8/3/1998 | See Source »

SENTENCED. AMY GROSSBERG, 20, and BRIAN PETERSON, 20; to 2 1/2 and 2 years in prison, respectively; in Wilmington, Del. The two pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the death of their newborn son in a Newark, Del., motel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jul. 20, 1998 | 7/20/1998 | See Source »

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