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...sure what, precisely, and I'm not sure I want to explain it to him. Suddenly the words Oval Office pop out from the newsreader, and then President, then oral sex, and my son's brow furrows. He looks up at me, thoroughly puzzled. I reach for the mute button and kill the sound from the TV. This is not what the civics books had in mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Crisis: It's the Sex, Stupid | 2/2/1998 | See Source »

...tapes are true, that wobbly moralism will reassert itself, for many of those irony-drenched boomers are now parents of their own Monica Lewinskys. One of two things will follow. The public will demand that Clinton go; or, tired of watching the news with their fingers on the mute button, they will turn away not only from the President but also from the very idea of public responsibility. And that, needless to say, isn't what the civics textbooks had in mind either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Crisis: It's the Sex, Stupid | 2/2/1998 | See Source »

...other characters seem mute and unable to connect with each other; Antony has to filter his decisions through Cleopatra's ultimate judgment and there are moments when no one listens at all when he speaks. Even Antony's friend Eros, to avoid a verbal disagreement with Antony when he orders her to kill him, kills herself instead. Feinstein's Antony is memorable and portrayed excellently, but the helplessness of his character makes one view his emotional tirades like those of a child. Everyone, save Cleopatra and Caesar, seems to float alone through the story, which is why the Victorian setting...

Author: By Jamie L. Jones, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Victorian 'Antony and Cleopatra' Solves Original Play's Problems | 1/9/1998 | See Source »

...just froze," said the New York native who requested anonymity. "I was just really scared. I was completely mute...

Author: By Jenny E. Heller, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: First-Year Finds Man In Hollis North Shower | 9/29/1997 | See Source »

...Land Prodigy XL Mute. (Platinum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Billboard CHARTS | 9/19/1997 | See Source »

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