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Incidentally, rumor has it Wynette demanded an apology from Clinton. Being well acquainted with defending her "theme song" against feminist criticism--she's been fielding the punches ever since the single's 1968 release and subsequent crossover success--we imagine she had a lot to say. A excerpt from her 1979 autobiography Stand By Your Man sums up her feelings...

Author: By Tammy Wynette, | Title: Our Person of the Week | 2/13/1992 | See Source »

...according to an official of Children Television's Workshop, which produces the show, the rumor is false--although somewhat creative...

Author: By Joshua W. Shenk, | Title: The News Of the Weird | 2/8/1992 | See Source »

...Democratic Party's favorite non-candidate, Mario M. Cuomo, will speak at the Kennedy School of Government next Wednesday, and the rumor mill is turning again...

Author: By Brian D. Ellison, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cuomo To Address K-School | 2/6/1992 | See Source »

...rumor, alas, was unfounded. When the results were released late Thursday to the survey's clients, they showed just another in a long series of declines in consumer spirit: a drop from 68.2 in December to 67.1 in early January. If that wasn't depressing enough, the government released a batch of year-end statistics last week confirming the economy's continuing dismal shape. Retail sales, which account for one-third of all U.S. economic activity, fell 0.4% in December. For all of 1991, they inched up a meager 0.7%, the smallest gain in three decades. The cutback in spending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Economy: A Hot Tip Topples | 1/27/1992 | See Source »

...there is a genuine dilemma. Rumors can become so thick and widespread that not to report their existence -- even if they cannot be proved -- becomes a kind of dishonesty. The Washington Post once got in trouble for publishing a rumor without proof it was true, and defended itself editorially on grounds that, well, it's true there was a rumor. Much chortling and indignation at that. But it's not a worthless point. Past profiles of Clinton, in TIME and elsewhere, have reported vague rumors about marital infidelity as exactly that, and rightly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Private Lives: How Relevant? | 1/27/1992 | See Source »

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