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Of course. Maybe the President was offended by some of the poems I wrote in the form of blues songs for Wanderin' Willie Clinton--I've Got the Movin' to the Middle 'Cause It's Slippery on the Edges Blues, for instance, or I've Got the Sorry That I...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POETIC INJUSTICE | 1/20/1997 | See Source »

Cambridge Fire Department officials said two firefighters and one police officer were also hospitalized after falling on slippery pavement at the scene.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Building Catches Fire in Cambridge | 12/9/1996 | See Source »

Pro-life advocates seized upon the crime as the logical end to the slippery slope of abortion rights. It offered an occasion to revisit the effort to close a "health of mother" loophole that allows partial-birth abortions, not just for women in dire straits but teenagers who have changed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILDREN WITHOUT SOULS | 12/2/1996 | See Source »

And yet, for all its solemnity, EZ Streets somehow manages to avoid melodrama. Indeed, Haggis brings a mordant wit to his new show. He has conceived head gangster Jimmy Murtha (Joe Pantoliano) as the kind of guy who mercilessly blows people up, then goes to confession and can't quite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: SHED A TEAR, JOE FRIDAY | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

And lest you all forget, winter is coming! Mere weeks away, the cool sting of the air and the slippery snow will be the curse of our days. Vivaldi humorously depicts such antics as poor folks falling on their derrieres after sliding over the ice with the sweeping phrasing of...

Author: By Elisabetta A. Coletti, | Title: Flautist's Fusion Redux of "Seasons" A Success | 10/17/1996 | See Source »

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