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...free world has now pronounced 1992 "the ugliest political year I've ever seen." Not that he or his minions are the problem, said George Bush last week. It's the other guys: "I look across at the Democratic primary, and anything that happened in 1988 is pale in comparison to what's going on there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Political Interest It's Not Going to Be Pretty | 4/20/1992 | See Source »

...Stepanakert a few miles away, a small plane landed to evacuate wounded to Yerevan, the Armenian capital. A stretcher bearing a woman in her 50s, her face scarred and swollen, was lifted aboard. She had lost both her legs to a GRAD missile the night before. Her husband, pale and exhausted, said nothing as he bent down to dab her lips with a moist cloth. After takeoff, the plane rose level with the white tops of the mountains that define Karabakh. The sounds of a war in progress fell away, replaced by the soft moan of one more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Former Soviet Union Carnage in Karabakh | 4/13/1992 | See Source »

Tsongas' education and training program looks pale by comparison. Calling public schools "the meetinghouses of our society," he advocates measures like merit pay for teachers, and would require high school students to pass a national test before graduation. On the subject of job training, he has little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: May The Best Plan Win | 3/23/1992 | See Source »

...still be working on my acting on my death bed, practicing my last words," he told the audience at a luncheon before the reception. Julia mimicked an earnest invalid: "How do I look, do I look too pale...

Author: By Maya E. Fischhoff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Raul Julia Discusses Acting, Service | 3/19/1992 | See Source »

...with several of his writers at his rather gloomy mock-Tudor house in Beverly Hills to piece together the Tonight show monologue. The sessions begin at 11 and usually run till 4 a.m. On one recent occasion the group that gathered around his kitchen table consisted of Jimmy Brogan, pale, scholarly-looking, wearing a blue baseball cap, a stand-up comedian admired by other comedians; Ron Richards, also a comedian, wry and pleasant; and Chuck Martin, a young stand-up and the only one not on Leno's payroll, sitting in like a rookie playing with the first team. (Leno...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jay Leno: Midnight's Mayor | 3/16/1992 | See Source »

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