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Another charmer, Bob Mulholland, a California Democrat, crawled out from under his rock long enough to declare that he planned to indecently expose the Republicans who sought to indecently expose the President. The White House hit him with a stick, and he slunk back to obscurity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Decent Exposure | 4/27/1998 | See Source »

...Judge Dreddfuls and the Waterworlds Without End, not the $80 million or $200 quillion the studios ponied up, but a lot of us still feel taken. All those tough-guy movies wore us down and knocked one another out. But now that the big boys have slunk away, adventurous viewers are seeking a late-summer tonic in independent cinema...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: THE INDIE 500 | 8/28/1995 | See Source »

...British scientist cut him off. "What a stupid thing to say," he chided. "This is a serious scientific session." Anderson was humiliated, but as he slunk out after the session, John Edsall came by. "Interesting idea," he said, and walked away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battler for Gene Therapy | 1/17/1994 | See Source »

...horse skeletons with uneaten bits of meat clinging to them; an enormous frozen cesspool; and, creeping into a cellar, the figure of a German soldier, his face a "mixture of suffering and idiot-like incomprehension." "The man," recalled Werth, "was perhaps already dying. In that basement into which he slunk there were still 200 Germans -- dying of hunger and frostbite. 'We haven't had time to deal with them yet,' one of the Russians said. 'They'll be taken away tomorrow, I suppose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War in Europe | 12/2/1991 | See Source »

Curious, I slunk into Revolution Books armed with my reporter's notebook, my power pen and my stoic journalist expression, prepared for a smooth and meaningless statement from a slick, faceless spokesperson. I waited nervously in line behind some clean-cut first-years buying Expos books and an Eliot House resident buying Maoist literature to talk to Rachael Adler, a senior staff member of Revolution Books...

Author: By Tara A. Nayak, | Title: Communism Falls | 9/19/1991 | See Source »

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