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...Michel in Congress anymore. Few people who think the best way to win reelection is to make good laws instead of tailoring one's voting record to the home constituency. Few people who see a congressional career in terms of public service, not politics. Few people who refuse to sling dirt for political gain...

Author: By Jay Kim, | Title: He Played Well in Peoria | 10/18/1993 | See Source »

They wear suits to meetings that no one else attends and make Dean Jewett look underdressed. They place ads swamped with political rhetoric, pleading for affection in campus publications. They sling mud uncontrollably at election time...

Author: By Daniel Altman, | Title: Grovelling for Your Fall Votes | 4/19/1993 | See Source »

...taste for vengeance and violence. There are also plenty of laughs for Alexandra Gersten as a daughter forever finding herself, William Youmans as a good- natured but doltish son-in-law prone to getting beaten up (he does an exquisite ballet of pain as an arm in a sling gets wrenched anew) and Jack Wallace as a veteran cop full of salty scorn for anything he cannot understand. The opening act is a fast 90 minutes of wit and surprise; the shorter second act eventually winds down into wearying explication and mawkish reconciliation, yet a saving vitality lingers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Of Drugs, Porn And Soup | 3/8/1993 | See Source »

...instead." They heaved the next two bodies down by their feet and hands. The skull of one of them burst as it hit the rock, and his brain splattered my shirt. I was lying on my back and could see what they were doing up there. I watched them sling the bodies into the canyon; it all took about an hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Murder At Ugar Gorge | 10/12/1992 | See Source »

...injured Davis, having just been rescued from a burning plane, starts immediately reporting from her stretcher and continues to conduct interviews, arm in a sling and IV attached, with her fellow survivors at the hospital...

Author: By June Shih, | Title: 'Hero' Mocks Media, Itself | 10/8/1992 | See Source »

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