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...life. "I look at Clinton in his dumpy running shorts," sniffs marketing consultant Judith Langer. "He symbolizes the baby-boom generation: they think health, but they don't always resist that chocolate-chip cookie." In the waning days of the campaign, Clinton's reading glasses (for baby boomers the scariest word in the English language is suddenly bifocals) began to make a frequent appearance on the nightly news. As for the Vice President-elect, Al Gore, just 19 months Clinton's junior, the passage of the years will probably be reckoned by the growth of the small bald spot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baby-boomer Bill Clinton: A Generation Takes Power | 11/16/1992 | See Source »

People feel compelled to protest against Operation Rescue because it is one of the scariest right-wing organizations in the world today. Counter-protesting at their demonstrations, however, invites confrontation. That's what the Operation Rescue people want--confrontation invites media attention. News coverage opens a free forum for pro-lifers to try to scare women from having abortions and to preach to anyone watching the news that abortion is immoral...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: Protesting for Privacy | 11/14/1992 | See Source »

...whistle-clean Merle Haggard. His 1989 hit single, A Better Man, was a true heartrender, a no-nonsense male confessional, and suggests that his new album, due in September, will be worth the wait. There are the Kentucky Headhunters, described by their rhythm guitarist Richard Young as "the scariest things in country music." The KenHeads blend whimsy, old-time picking and some refried hippie riffs with the dynamism of a rock band from some Ozark Olympus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Garth Brooks: Friends In Low Places | 3/30/1992 | See Source »

Brian Dennehy, hair dyed a sinister black, starred in this horror story about a bully who terrorizes a Missouri town while the wheels of justice grind slow. Directed by James Sadwith, it was the scariest TV movie of the year, partly because it came so close to justifying vigilante violence...

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

Brian Dennehy, hair dyed a sinister black, starred in this horror story about a bully who terrorizes a Missouri town while the wheels of justice grind slow. Directed by James Sadwith, it was the scariest TV movie of the year, partly because it came so close to justifying vigilante violence...

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

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