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...rough, no first-class, no air conditioning...these were pure funky African third world trains," he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gates Family Train Trip Across Africa Featured in Book, Television Series | 11/9/1996 | See Source »

...strengths of "Virtual School" are the strengths of "Small World Order": the play works best when it functions as pure satire. But when Rand attempts to seriously critique the Disney Empire for its insensitivity to minorities and women and for its culture of conformity, his dialogue is clunky, overly obvious and heavy-handed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mickey Mouse Meets Rosemary Kennedy in Two Loeb Ex One-Acts | 11/7/1996 | See Source »

...Bill Clinton's speech is the one that reads, "Our job is to give people the tools to make the most of their own lives." It helped that while he was trying to give people those tools, Newt Gingrich seemed intent on taking them away. Clinton's theme was pure empowerment. The models are the G.I. Bill, the Homestead Act, land-grant colleges and the mortgage insurance of the 1930s. The risk was that even if these themes were not entirely new to Clinton, they were embedded like tissue in Bob Dole. Kansas was a homesteader's paradise; he remade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ELECTION '96: CAMPAIGN: TWO MEN, TWO VISIONS | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

Smith, with the American Conservative Union's lifetime rating of 96%, is one of Congress' most ideologically pure members. A Vietnam vet on the Armed Services Committee, he has adamantly supported high military spending. He also wrote parts of the G.O.P. crime bill, including a provision for mandatory minimum sentences for violent criminals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A GUIDE TO THE CONGRESSIONAL RACES: NEW HAMPSHIRE | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

Blain has been a truck builder and union member for 30 years (he retired this year), and his political credentials are pure working-class. So are his positions: He opposes free-trade agreements like NAFTA and gatt (the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) because he believes they expose the American laborer to harsher competition from abroad. He also supports family medical leave and regular, predictable increases in the minimum wage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A GUIDE TO THE CONGRESSIONAL RACES: OHIO | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

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