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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think that Ross Perot can be seen as a man of either such extremes. I supported him in 1992 because I believed, if nothing else that it is good to shake up our lethargic two party system every now and then, so as to remind those in government that in the United States, the final say exists not in plush conference rooms but with the American public, living on this sprawling mass of land which many intellectuals seem to forget actually exists...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Silly to Scorn Populism | 5/23/1994 | See Source »

Meanwhile, Martin's unoriginal characters are just that, unoriginal, and worse, they are the leads. Einstein is fabulously entertaining--and charming--as the Frasier Crane of physics, always having to put up with inferior intellects, but even modernizing Einstein cannot shake him from his stereotypes. Picasso could not be more repulsive, but we already knew that anyway. His legendary misogyny is not lost on Martin or his scrip;, unfortunately there was on way to make it funny either. I kept wondering why Picasso gets his name in the title rather than Einstein. Not only is he the biggest drag...

Author: By Thomas Madsen, | Title: Sharing Cafe Au Lait With Two Great Intellects | 5/20/1994 | See Source »

...wife Pat at the Nixon library and birthplace in Yorba Linda. Ford was Nixon's closest political colleague. "I treasured his friendship," Ford said later. "When I took the oath of office in the well of the House in 1949, the very first person who came up to shake my hand was Dick Nixon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Richard Nixon: Fanfare for an Uncommon Man | 5/9/1994 | See Source »

...already has in the closet. The metallic look is suffering from fatigue, but it's still in favor. And nobody looks good in disheveled fake fur, now everywhere. The effect is to present a woman as an unclipped poodle who just swam a stream and had a good, vigorous shake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion's Fall | 4/25/1994 | See Source »

...enormous range of grievances thatall came together during these uprisings,"Brinkely says. "It was an effort to shake up thegoverning structure of the university and,indirectly, society...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: Then as Now, Students Took On ROTC | 4/22/1994 | See Source »

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