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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...explaining, "A truly complex man, it would take years to fully understand him [Clinton]." The problem with understanding Clinton is that there isn't anything to understand--Clinton possesses no ideology, direction, or firm beliefs on any issues. Like a wet snake, if you tighten your grip on Slick Willie at any one point, he just pops out the other end. --Noble M. Hansen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Clinton Is Far From Sincere | 11/1/1996 | See Source »

...have gone on to respectable lives. Shakes' job is to persuade their priestly mentor to supply an alibi for the murderers by lying on the witness stand. This offers amusingly gainful employment for Dustin Hoffman as a bumbling defense lawyer. It is all legally preposterous. But Levinson is a slick craftsman, his actors are insinuatingly real, and cinematographer Michael Ballhaus casts a disarmingly believable light on these proceedings. At some low, what's-next level, Sleepers works like, well, gangbusters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: CRIMES OF THE HEART | 10/28/1996 | See Source »

Peter suffers from a deep passivity, bred by East Germany's attempts to "produce a worker for the worker's state, someone not too smart, not too skeptical." When Peter first arrives in Hamburg in 1985, Kramer writes, "He had a little cassette player, tapes by Pink Floyd, Grace Slick, and the Grateful Dead, a filter coffeepot, and two hundred and fifty grams of Jacobs Fein und Mild Guatemala-blend coffee. He had everything he needed until someone came and told him what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: EAST IS EAST, WEST IS WEST | 10/28/1996 | See Source »

DANIEL ORTEGA Nicaragua The Sandinista who seized power in 1979 and left office after losing an election in 1990 has traded fiery rhetoric for slick ads. He is now even-odds to win the Oct. 20 presidential election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Oct. 14, 1996 | 10/14/1996 | See Source »

...debate reinforced my vote for Bob Dole," Porter said. "Clinton was very slick and articulate, but he twisted facts. I was very turned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONFRONTATION IN CONNECTICUT | 10/7/1996 | See Source »

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