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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...anyone who has longed to stand up in front of an audience of complete strangers and smoke a cigar a la Slick Willie, The Comedy Connection is the place to be on Thursday night. The featured comedian is Frank Santos (better known as "The R-Rated Hypnotist") and he'll no doubt have even the most uptight pre-meds laughing out loud. 8:30 p.m., The Comedy Connection, Faneuil Hall Marketplace 2nd Floor (Government Center T-Stop...

Author: By Sara Reistad-long, | Title: LISTINGS | 10/15/1998 | See Source »

...lies is that when he shook his finger at me and said, "I did not have sexual relations with that woman," he was so damn convincing. Nixon's Oval Office offenses and subsequent prevarications were a thousandfold more reprehensible, but I could always take comfort in his transparency. Slick Willie snookered most of us. MARTIN BLINDER San Anselmo, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 12, 1998 | 10/12/1998 | See Source »

Even if you don't watch much TV, the hospital marketers will find you. You may open your mailbox and find one of Duke's slick, multicolored brochures. Or you may visit your kid's school and have to shoo away Twinkle, WakeMed's man-in-a-plush-yellow-star mascot, who brings joy to the hearts of youngsters--and (not incidentally) stirs up business for WakeMed's Children's Center...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Doctor Is Out--Shooting A Commercial | 10/12/1998 | See Source »

Conscientious citizens should consider it their obligation to visit Resignation.com. Did you know that Winston Churchill resigned? Perhaps our President should stick around after all. Winston doesn't really deserve Slick Willie's kind of company. NOAH D. OPPENHEIM

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DARTBOARD | 10/9/1998 | See Source »

...Steppin' It Up," but the synergy of past ventures doesn't quite reappear, and the song, as do many aspects of the album, sounds halting and deliberate. Q-Tip waxes an eloquent soliloquy in "The Love" about love in all forms, but for every one of these slick arrangements, there is a lame and unmemorable tune waiting to follow it. "4 Moms" is an enjoyable instrumental respite, but the album hits bottom in "Give Me" when Ali Shaheed inexplicably spins in samples from Boyz...

Author: By Benjamin L. Kornell, | Title: SOUND ADVICE | 10/9/1998 | See Source »

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