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...What are the two or three accomplishments as Vice President of which you are proudest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People Vote for Presidents, Not Vice Presidents | 10/19/1992 | See Source »

Until now, the city's best-known treasure has been the classic blues of Beale Street, its proudest artifacts the bejeweled jumpsuits displayed in a shrine to its patron saint, Elvis. But these days such attractions are being upstaged by a succession of museum-quality jewels, porcelains, gilded carriages and statuary. Yes, in Memphis. The city has managed to put itself on the international circuit of blockbuster art shows. Its current offering: Splendors of the Ottoman Sultans, an opulent array of 274 possessions of the militarily ruthless yet artistically keen Turks who ruled a wedge of Europe and Asia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Memphis Blue, Ottoman Gold | 8/10/1992 | See Source »

...because the meet was held on American turf, in Indianapolis. The following April in Paris, when world competitors duked it out for medals on the four individual events, Zmeskal coolly answered her critics by capturing gold on both floor exercise and the balance beam. To date, it is her proudest achievement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gymnastics Don't Call Them Pixies! | 7/27/1992 | See Source »

...story was familiar to any science-fiction fan. The crew of a rocket ship returns to earth after a long space voyage only to find everything changed. It was exactly that way for Sergei Krikalev. When he blasted off in May 1991, he was one of the proudest of elites, a Soviet cosmonaut. Last week, when he came back after 313 days in orbit, he found a different world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Discovering a New World | 4/6/1992 | See Source »

Economic Keynesianism, at worst, leaves you with some nice government-built bridges. Symbolic Military Keynesianism leaves you with a vague sense of disappointment and massive hangover of drugs, crime, unemployment, a third-rate video duplicate of Whitney Huston "celebrating America's proudest moment" on HBO and a total absence of concern for the wreckage the military left behind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Symbolic Pump-Priming | 1/17/1992 | See Source »

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