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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nefarious Plot. Whitewater conspiracy buffs will find in Livingstone a Zelig-like character who was on hand for most of the Administration's darkest moments. On the day of the travel office purge, in May 1993, he wrote the memo barring the workers from the White House. When Vincent Foster committed suicide, in July 1993, he accompanied associate counsel William Kennedy III to identify the body. The next morning, two Secret Service agents said, they saw Livingstone leaving the elevator that connected to Foster's office suite with a briefcase and box of loose-leaf binders (Livingstone denied removing documents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MAN BEHIND THE MESS | 6/24/1996 | See Source »

...whole plot of the movie revolves around not letting the list of Impossible Mission Force agents and their true identities fall into the wrong hands. It might be conjectured that the villainous, disgruntled middle-aged middle manager Jim Phelps goes after the list like someone leaving a corporation and taking the client names with him to start his own business. ROBERT SCAROLA Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 17, 1996 | 6/17/1996 | See Source »

Every so often in the charmed life of Bill Clinton, when things have been going a little too smoothly for a little too long, the fates decide to thicken the plot. The Oxford-bound scholar comes up 1-A in the draft, the boy Governor gets tossed out by Arkansas voters, the earnest presidential candidate morphs into a skirt-chasing tabloid cartoon--and Clinton has to run harder and smarter to catch up with his dreams. Which is why some of the President's closest advisers have been anxiously peering beyond his gaudy poll numbers to the next, and inevitable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY | 6/10/1996 | See Source »

...works very smartly. The Simpson-Bruckheimer production duo run clever variations on their macho obsessions (missiles, car chases, gay baiting, the Crimson Tide mutiny plot). Connery and Cage are fine odd-couple buddies--the grizzled lifer and the computer nerd who, even when tossing a live grenade, throws like a girl. This ain't art, exactly. But if you're at the 'plex and need to choose between The Rock and a Cruise place, it's no choice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: GOOD ROCKIN' | 6/10/1996 | See Source »

...tales; years ago, you see, Jake's fiance killed herself after a torturous affair with another man, leaving Jake with no choice but to spend the rest of his life soliciting dirty letters in an effort to unravel the female mind. The stories contained in his correspondence form the plot of each show. Many of them feature men, like Jake, who are wounded souls, victims of sexually aggressive women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: NOW, THE SEX FILES | 6/10/1996 | See Source »

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