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When the baby-boomers and the 16-year-old girls gathered last Friday in the FleetCenter, it was obvious that we still live very much in the shadow of the '60s. But it was equally obvious that the fire that fueled the brilliance of the era has long died out. Dylan's voice is still a nasal whine, but his lyrical efforts can no longer redeem it. Youthful abandon continues to stretch boundaries, but any spirit of adventure has been replaced by sad desperation. Halfway through Dylan's unintentionally elegaic performance, my schoolgirl friends stopped drinking, smoking and fondling each...
...once polled voters to decide where he should go on vacation, deserves history's inattention. Which is why with the end of his presidency in sight and the realization that a lame duck's influence drops precipitously after his sixth year, Clinton and his advisers are feeling the shadow of Reagan and urgently pondering the question, What is Clintonism? "We've been out there moving the ship in a very good direction, but we haven't had any navigational charts," concedes White House spokesman Mike McCurry...
Officials from Winchester College--another of UK's top prep schools--and the prestigious Westminster School, situated in the shadow of Westminster Abbey also that for most of their students, the focus is on matriculating to Oxford or Cambridge...
When Thai lobbyists arrive in Washington Wednesday to drum up support for a bailout from the International Monetary Fund, they'll be walking in the shadow of the black helicopters. TIME Capitol Hill correspondent James Carney says congressional watchdogs against the "New World Order" are painting the IMF as their latest villain...
...described TIME's plans for special issues in which the 100 most influential people of the 20th century will be named [TO OUR READERS, Nov. 24]. In terms of pure influence and impact, the shadow of Adolf Hitler looms above all. It is difficult to find a truly significant event or situation from the middle 1930s to the early '90s that is not the direct or indirect result of, or is not in some way related to, his personal decisions. But for Hitler's war and its sequel, all the others--surely Churchill, undoubtedly De Gaulle, probably Roosevelt and maybe...