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...when he spots it, he zooms straight in. Last week the House minority whip pounced on a tattered, Democratic- sponsored lobbying reform bill that was limping toward passage. He came in not for a kill, only to place a wound -- perhaps simply for pride of marksmanship. Straightening his Scotch tartan tie, the Congressman from Georgia upended his schedule, rushed from his second-floor office, stepped onto the House floor and delivered a five-minute, late-afternoon blast. He aimed at one minor and carefully buried clause, which he decried as "designed to kill pressure from back home that has been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Eyes of Newt | 10/10/1994 | See Source »

...police. But don't think it stops there. As Laura talks gives her testimony to the police and her father, we notice her eyes glowing with the golden sheen indicative of werewolf infection. She too, slinking in her black cat suit looking like something from a Dewar's Scotch ad, slips into the woods to run with Will. And so, presumably, they live happily ever after running through the woods killing innocent deer and waiting for some unbeknownst driver to hit them on a snowy night...

Author: By G. WILLIAM Winborn, | Title: Mike Nichols Cooks a Wolf Badly | 7/1/1994 | See Source »

...investigation force McPherson to spend a great deal of time in Laura's apartment, prying into every aspect of her life. He peruses her letters and reads her diary. He goes through her clothes and smells her perfume. He drinks her Scotch while staring at her portrait in the living room. Hard-boiled detective Mark McPherson has fallen in love with a dead woman...

Author: By Joel VILLASENOR Ruiz, | Title: Let Laura Into Your Life | 2/10/1994 | See Source »

...because the family travels together," Wynn says. "It's quite a different thing to sit down and dedicate creative design energy to build for children. I'm not, ain't gonna, not interested. I'm after Mom and Dad." Wynn's dolphins are just a '90s form of free Scotch and sodas, a cheap, subtler means of inducing people to leave their room and lose money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Las Vegas, U.S.A. | 1/10/1994 | See Source »

...people and it was just pitchers of martinis. We didn't have any beer; it was just martinis. When Dylan Thomas came, he didn't like martinis, he didn't like gin. He said it was the sort of thing made in a chemistry lab, and he said, "Oh scotch will...

Author: By Natasha H. Leland, | Title: Making Poetry Work: A Conversation with Donald Hall | 11/4/1993 | See Source »

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