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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reason why these men prefer boxers. Men who are temporarily infertile from briefs are a small percentage of wearers, and the percentage of men who are currently trying to conceive a child is small anyway. The main reason men wear boxers can be summed up in one politically incorrect phrase: chicks...
...Adviser Sandy Berger kept a phone line open to the palace. Clinton, who was watching the new film Welcome to Sarajevo in the White House family quarters, slipped away from the screening twice for updates on developments in Geneva. Albright demanded that the adjective "unconditional" be inserted in one phrase spelling out Iraqi acceptance of U.N. inspections. In another paragraph, the Americans added that the team would look for ways to make its "work more effective"--diplomatic code words for hunting for weapons in more places...
...culture's most powerful critic was taking his shot. On the Oct. 19 episode of The Simpsons, Bart walked up to the blackboard and, in his signature scrawl, covered it with the phrase, "I no longer want my MTV." Meanwhile, the MTV-Hater's Page Website offered a chat for "all those who are sick of MTV's mass of nonmusic-related programming." Even the demographically challenged Howard Stern, whose own audience is more Pat Benatar than Puff Daddy, realized he could score easy points by harping on the service's lack of videos. Yet despite the welling demand...
...Talking at one point about the need to be sensitive to the public's will, she said, "I have done my best, with Prince Philip's constant love and help, to interpret it correctly..." There it was--the word love. Yes, she had tucked it away in a parenthetical phrase, but no one could remember the Queen's ever using it in a personal context. Will it now replace "duty" in her lexicon...
...little bit like how one imagines it must be to get chewed out by New York Jets football coach Bill Parcells--only with guitars. Bolton is one of those guys who, even when he's singing softly, SEEMS TO BE SINGING IN CAPITAL LETTERS. He invests nearly every phrase of every song with unbearable, unearned emotion, and several of the songs are cluttered with heavy-metalish guitar asides that seem lifted from Spinal Tap B sides. The last song on this album, Go the Distance, is a fitting closer. It's from the animated movie Hercules, and every line...