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...beat-Bush-At-All-Costs perspective, I hope Buchanan will rake in around 37 percent. The last few decades show that no incumbent can give up that much in New Hampshire and still go on to win in November--Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford and Lyndon Johnson (who actually quit the race when Eugene McCarthy bagged 40 percent in the Granite state) are recent examples...

Author: By John A. Cloud, | Title: Fight the Power? | 1/31/1992 | See Source »

...They are a pesty, aggressive, hungry team and they never quit," Dooley said...

Author: By Liz Resnick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bears Sting Icewomen, 4-3 | 1/30/1992 | See Source »

...film has courted scandal since it was a script, which earned a record $3 million for writer Joe Eszterhas. Before shooting began, the original producer, Irwin Winkler, quit, complaining that director Paul Verhoeven was obsessed with showing body parts "in various stages of excitement." Eszterhas also stormed off the project once or twice. Last spring the production was picketed in San Francisco by gay activists objecting to the script's depiction of killer lesbians. Everyone else was gossiping about the sex scenes. "Michael Douglas and I went as far as anyone could go," Stone told Movieline magazine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Ever Became of NC-17? | 1/27/1992 | See Source »

Nicol Williamson's in I Hate Hamlet, after the notoriously erratic performer smote co-star Evan Handler with the flat of his sword during a dueling scene, and Handler -- believing the blow was deliberate -- walked off and quit the show. "Well," said Williamson to the stunned audience, "should I sing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best of 1991 | 1/6/1992 | See Source »

Turner agreed to spend half his time in Los Angeles while Fonda's son Troy was still in high school there. When Fonda decided she would quit drinking a year ago, Turner announced he would too. She has given up making movies for | now. ("Ted Turner is not a man that you leave to go on location. He needs you there all the time," she says.) He has given up hour-to-hour management of his company. He now eats much of the health-food menu her cook prepares and has lost 10 lbs. They designed and decorated together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Taming of Ted Turner | 1/6/1992 | See Source »

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