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NAME: PAUL ("SIR") MCCARTNEY AGE: 56 OCCUPATION: Keeping the Beatles' flame alive; writing symphonies BEST PUNCH: Accuses BBC of banning late wife Linda's newly released song because of profane lyrics; buys ads in papers saying parents, not radio, should decide what their kids hear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 8, 1999 | 2/8/1999 | See Source »

...believed would be a speech about the President's transgressions and instead gave a speech about his own. Then Livingston made his way to the now common Republican argument that if Clinton truly wanted to avoid the nightmare of a Senate trial, he should do the honorable thing. "You sir," he addressed the President, "may resign your post." Democrats hissed and moaned. Waters of California shouted, "You resign!" More Democrats followed, each shouting, "You resign! You resign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Washington Burning | 12/28/1998 | See Source »

Last week SIR ANTHONY HOPKINS called acting a "tiresome, disturbing and distasteful" profession, not to mention a "complete waste of time." Apparently years of accolades, knighting ceremonies and Academy Awards have left Tony a little bitter. In an interview with the British tabloid News of the World, Hopkins announced he was "getting out of this ridiculous business," adding that "acting is bad for the mental health." Once a mainstay of Merchant-Ivory productions, Hopkins has more recently appeared in such claptrap as the critically reviled Meet Joe Black. He says his project Titus Andronicus, currently filming in Rome, will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 28, 1998 | 12/28/1998 | See Source »

...meant to be the prosecution's strongest witness, turned on Smaltz on the stand and said he'd agreed to become his "puppet" only after three years of "storm-trooper" tactics by the independent counsel. "God knows, if I had $30 million, I could find dirt on you, sir," Douglas told Smaltz in front of the jury. (The amount Smaltz actually spent, through March, was $17.5 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Was This A Bad Idea? | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

...didn't want to hear about the tourist class. Incredibly, Britain closed its airports to Pan Am flights that had tourist seats. Pan Am was forced to switch to remote Shannon, Ireland. The industry's aversion to competition and making travel affordable was to have a long life, as Sir Freddie Laker would discover in the 1970s and Virgin Atlantic nearly a decade later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUAN TRIPPE: Pilot Of The Jet Age | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

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