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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jean MacKenzie, a columnist for the Moscow Times (one of two English-language dailies in the city) wrote after a year's leave of absence that "in just one year, Moscow has moved from the grimy, chaotic, Kafkaesque city to a slick, sleek, world-class business capital." As an example of this drastic difference, one study-abroad program's information booklet--published only a year ago--tells its American students that they can avoid being "pegged quickly as an American" by wearing inconspicuous non-brand name American clothing. However, Karen Bradbury, a coordinator of the program, said that this information...

Author: By Marshall I. Lewy, | Title: From Russia With Love | 2/19/1998 | See Source »

...slick entertainment system with surround sound enhances the audio of TV and VHS programming. Price and Leslie align their remote controls on their cherry end table...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: individual style | 2/19/1998 | See Source »

...that Usenet groups competed for the title of Canonical Clinton-Lewinsky Joke List. The Bulgarian daily Sega crossed the Balkans--and partisan lines--to set up a Website where Clinton loyalists could leave supportive messages for the President. And the Official Monica Lewinsky Anagrams Page (I Yen Woman Licks; Slick May Win One) expanded its lexicon to include her lawyer, William Ginsburg (Bill Wins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All Monica All The Time | 2/9/1998 | See Source »

...maybe the third protagonist of the '60s should be conjured up. Until the middle of last week, I had been working on the conceit that Bill Clinton is Lyndon Johnson Without Tears--both Clinton and Johnson being big-hearted, triple-slick Southern boys, and mama's boys, with a genius for politics, and a bardic gift for storytelling, and huge egos and insecurities interbraided, and minds aggressively intelligent, instinctive, fiercely absorptive, and with a love of people, and a general incapacity to tell the truth. Or anyway (let's be nice) a way of thinking of the truth as only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Reckless and the Stupid | 2/2/1998 | See Source »

...Clintons have been able to turn the current crisis to their advantage has surprised everyone ? except those of us who remember New Hampshire in 1992. Then as now, there's Gennifer Flowers, there are tapes and there's a whole host of allegations that don't quite stick to Slick Willie. And it's eerie how Hillary is still able to deflect press attention with a single soundbite. Then: "I'm not some Tammy Wynette." Now: "There is a right-wing conspiracy against my husband." And faster than you can say Dick Morris, Kenneth Starr's reputation heads South...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME's Weekend Review | 1/31/1998 | See Source »

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