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...project how history would rank each entry. Balancing the budget, presiding over the economic boom, reforming welfare, cutting crime, dragging his party to the center and preparing his people for the new century--these were seen as Clinton's key legacy items. And what of his scandal sheet, which even then was voluminous? "Our hope is that we can accomplish enough in the second term to make those allegations pale," an adviser told TIME last year. "We'd like to reduce them to a legacy footnote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Breakdown on the Road to History | 8/10/1998 | See Source »

...after building slowly in Ricci's two earlier, related novels (including the prize-winning The Book of Saints), comes to a mist-wreathed climax in Where She Has Gone (Picador USA; 325 pages; $25). Here the sins of the Old World seep across the New as blood across a sheet. Vittorio Innocente--the name itself doesn't travel light--lives unanchored in a Toronto of immigrants, with nothing, as he says, but his freedom. Driving around town in his late father's Oldsmobile, he cannot slough off his mother's infidelity and the out-of-wedlock child she bore, while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Sins Of The Old World | 8/10/1998 | See Source »

Fighting off a cold, the stuffed-up Seinfeld took swigs from a water bottle and periodically checked his talking points on a sheet of wrinkled yellow paper, jumping from topic to topic with a disjointed rhythm that diminished his chances of building up a rolling momentum. The first fusillade of jokes--how "woos" and "yips" have replaced laughter at shows--was classic Seinfeld: gently humorous observations. Then comedy leapfrog. A few comments about death segued into a bit on how the closest equivalent we have to royalty in America is the people who get to ride in electric carts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: As for the Old Master... | 8/10/1998 | See Source »

...Kimeses may be the biggest mother-and-son crime team since Ma Barker and her boys swore off bank robbing. The Oklahoma-born Sante, 63, has a rap sheet stretching back to the 1960s. Among her more exotic crimes: stealing a $6,500 fur at a Washington piano bar and enslaving illegal Mexican immigrants to work as maids. Kenneth has been convicted of robbery and assault. Mother and son are jointly accused of using a worthless check to buy their $14,000 Lincoln Town Car--the charge for which they are now locked up in a New York jail. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Landlady Vanishes | 7/20/1998 | See Source »

...wash seduces the Grand Vitara. --Vehicle is massaged by soapy lather and gentle brushes. --Rear angle of [car]. We see water explode off sheet metal. --Interior shot..we see water drops dancing down the windshield. --The dryer caresses the windshield. --The Grand Vitara emerges from the car wash. --From inside, we see the towel boy waiting in awe. --Reverse angle as Grand Vitara emerges. The badge glistens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Jul. 6, 1998 | 7/6/1998 | See Source »

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