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...Roses added some sin to the power ballad with the more violent "Sweet Child O' Mine" though keeping the music loud and clear. In 1989, Bad English, led by a former Journey member, gave us the masterful "When I See You Smile," and Roxette released the shallow yet potent "Listen to Your Heart...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: A Time Before Nirvana | 3/11/1998 | See Source »

...style, however silly on occasion, gave the magazine a distinctive voice. Men were not famous but "famed," not powerful but "potent." High on the list of accolades was "able." All were masculine terms of approbation: the news in Homeric mode, demigods or villains on tiptoe. TIME's writers loved Homer's narrative techniques. Compound adjectives: Mexico's President Francisco Madero was "wild-eyed." The World War I German Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz was "long-whiskered." Public figures were tagged with mock-heroic identifying phrases. Minnesota's Senator Henrik Shipstead was invariably "the duck-hunting dentist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A History: The Time Of Our Lives | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

...Chapter 1934 of the great visitors book which men call History many a potent human being scrawled his name the twelvemonth past. But no man, however long his arm, could write his name so big as the name written by the longer arm of mankind. Neither micrometer nor yardstick was necessary to determine that the name of Franklin Delano Roosevelt was written bigger, blacker, bolder than all the rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1929-1939 Despair | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

...take care of business. He offered something to everyone: a balanced budget for the bond markets, better child care for working parents, a higher minimum wage for the unions, due attention to global warming for the greens, a plan to save Social Security for the boomers, and a last, potent warning for Saddam Hussein...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Is a Battle --Hillary Clinton | 2/9/1998 | See Source »

...been half a century since Harvard has met a nationally-prominent opponent in football. Yet, every February, two peculiar and potent basketball teams venture into our 'hood, one night after the other...

Author: By Lev F. Gerlovin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson has plenty to worry about against Penn, 11th ranked Princeton | 2/6/1998 | See Source »

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