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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Buchanan's many friends in Washington and the media say he's a sweetheart. To account for the occasional bloodlust in his rhetoric, some of them offer the defense of poetic license. Rhetorical overkill is a professional hazard of Washington punditry, the argument goes, especially the twist-and-shout kind that Buchanan mastered on TV. To be heard above the noise on Crossfire, he has to talk tougher than he is. Buchanan's brother James says that's what explains the "Zulus" remark. "He was speaking off the top of his head. He didn't call them 'jungle bunnies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN '96: THE CASE AGAINST BUCHANAN | 3/4/1996 | See Source »

...Archives. After leaving the White House, Pat returned to the typewriter, turning out a syndicated column and establishing an afternoon radio show with liberal Tom Braden that eventually metamorphosed into CNN's Crossfire. Buchanan did his sparring in print and on the air, and in the new era of Shout TV, Pat delivered his blows without guilt or restraint. By the mid-1980s, Buchanan recalls, "I was hitting the long ball," earning as much as $800,000 a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN '96: THE MAKING OF BUCHANAN | 2/26/1996 | See Source »

...ENOUGH TO REMEMBER THE 1950S, WHEN BLACKS were so rarely on television that the mere sight of one was enough to produce pandemonium in our Washington neighborhood. "Colored on TV," someone would shout from the front porch, and all normal activity ceased as everybody within earshot rushed to the nearest set for a moment of electronic racial solidarity. If somehow you missed the event, you felt seriously deprived. At a time when the civil rights movement was just beginning, seeing blacks on the tube made us feel more like a part of America. We wanted them to be there even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEAVY BREATHING: WAITING TO EXHALE | 1/15/1996 | See Source »

...Wilder: "There was a man in Belmar who sold only bananas, and he hired Morty and Morty hired me. The job was to go along the streets hollering 'Bananas, twenty-five cents a bunch!' What a great job. I still sometimes dream about that job. You got paid to shout 'Bananas...

Author: By David J. C. shafer, | Title: Roth's Latest Tells Compelling Story of Hormonal Misanthrope | 12/14/1995 | See Source »

...wives, to the Red Cross lunch meeting, to the reception for the wife of the Trinidadian Security Minister. Alma leaves friends in stitches by describing hellish dinner parties at which Colin always seems to be sharing a private joke with Princess Diana across the table while Alma has to shout conversation into the ear of an octogenarian. "It's not easy being the tail on Colin's kite," says someone who has seen Alma in action. "But she is always graceful and at ease; she never complains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHY ALMA DIDN'T WANT THE JOB | 11/20/1995 | See Source »

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