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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...votes in the House to impeach Clinton. If anything, the intense skepticism regarding his motives will only harden sentiment against him in the G.O.P. It is offensive because despite the President's sexual immorality, we cannot seriously entertain the notion that Clinton would employ military action to save his skin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Showing Force | 12/17/1998 | See Source »

...same boat--it is the one we call mid-year doldrums. To push ourselves back into the current, we get away. How I do remember that Kroks/Chattertocks concert. Although the Kroks cannot replace Frank, their rendition of Cole Porter's "I've Got You Under My Skin" was good. Afterwards, we went to the Cheesecake Factory, and I got to know another human being and fellow House resident...

Author: By James P. Mcfadden, | Title: With Frank, Always | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

...probes, powered by batteries, should wink out within three days. The lander, with robust solar panels to keep it humming, could last three months. But even if the systems do not survive that long, their work could be profound. After all, scientists have spent years studying just the Martian skin; this will be their first chance to dig a little deeper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Digging Mars | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

...much more complicated, so much more challenging than simply making a movie," Katzenberg says. Just putting together the script raised enough delicate questions to fill the Red Sea. How to portray the Egyptians as cruel slave masters without antagonizing the Arab world? "We were very careful with skin tones to show that the slave population was multicultural, multiethnic," says Tzivia Schwartz-Getzug, an expert in interfaith relations who was hired as liaison to the religious community. "And in the Exodus scene, you actually see some Egyptians going with the Hebrews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Prince And The Promoter | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

Celebrity is different from Allen's previous works in other ways, too. Celebrity is certainly his most gentile film to date. The word "bagel" is uttered only once. The only scene with rabbis in it features the yarmukled men trapped in a room with a group of teenage skin-heads. Most of the film is shot in locations besides those that are usually featured in Allen's stories; now characters are uprooted, on the streets, at parties, in movies, and so forth...

Author: By Lauren M. Mechling, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: CELEBRITY | 12/11/1998 | See Source »

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