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...result is an Eddie Murphy parody: "What this little girl need, I say, is a hot brick in her bed and a mustard plaster on her chest and old Rebekah rubbing out the chill from her bones, with a milk toddy and a talk with Jesus to finish the cure. I done talk with Jesus while I rub, and He bring you back like I knowed He would. Lord, I tell Him, this ain't no real work like Lazarus, this here is just a little girl feeling poorly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Frankly, It's Not Worth a Damn | 10/7/1991 | See Source »

...Clifford and his protege-partner, Robert Altman, which characterized their own conduct as "entirely proper," Wisconsin Republican Toby Roth said, "I don't believe a word of it. You've been in bed with B.C.C.I. for 10 years, and you're telling us all you got was a back rub...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Banking No Amiable Dunce | 9/23/1991 | See Source »

Meanwhile, his rivals nervously shift their feet, twitch their fingers, rub gold crucifixes, amulets and talismans. Grace Craighead of Philadelphia quivers with stage fright. "I'm soooo nervous," she says. "This is my first tournament." Adrenaline is boiling, shoulders are hunched, fingers poised to punch the two keys that will spin the slot-machine wheels to winning numbers and bars, or losing spaces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Atlantic City, New Jersey Chasing the Super Red Sevens | 5/6/1991 | See Source »

...important." The irony is that his pro-war vote, a prerequisite for having a chance in the general election, could deny Gore his dovish party's bid. It is not lost on his colleagues that every time Gore defends their vote against force, he gets to rub in the fact that he chose right on the biggest foreign-policy issue of the past decade. When asked last week, Gore went so far as to say he was "actively thinking about" running. Other "go" signals: he looks 20 lbs. thinner, and he has $1 million left over from his 1990 Senate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Donkeys in This Horse Race | 3/25/1991 | See Source »

...hangers wish to emphasize their right to offend freely, to rub in the fact of their privilege to insult. For better or worse, our response cannot be to shut them up. The insult now stands, neither to be obviated nor obliterated by the flag's forcible removal. Hopefully, those responsible will someday realize what they truly communicate. Regardless, if we can bring most other students to understand the communication, we may be victimized by fewer reckless and damaging assertions of "pride" and "rights" in the future. Ben Hansen '92 Helena Hansen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Mas! | 3/21/1991 | See Source »

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