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...Bush has become so smooth with the Oprah language of caring (against Gore's tin ear for it) that he got the biggest applause of the night on David Letterman last Thursday when he repeated the "trust" mantra. Indeed, when Gore in the debate brought up the Dingell-Norwood bill, a bipartisan effort to solve the HMO problem, he might as well have pulled a shiny chrome instrument out of his back pocket and performed an invasive procedure on one of the Undecideds. In the face of details, Bush seeks refuge in his own good intentions, expressed in a warm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: What's Love Got To Do With It? | 10/30/2000 | See Source »

...have some wit and brains. For No. 4 (Bottoms), made in 1966, Ono invited friends to drop their pants and walk in place while she filmed the piston motions of their bare behinds. On the soundtrack you hear their nervous chatter as the rear ends--plump or scrawny, smooth or furry--rise and dip and bunch up on-screen. The point that we're all human has been made before, but not usually with tongue so literally in cheek. Four years later, she made Fly, in which, for 25 minutes, what appears to be a single housefly (actually there were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: In Her Own Image | 10/30/2000 | See Source »

...Bush was obsessed with that struggling working mom who earned around $20,000 a year but who was getting killed at tax time because of a quirk in the code. He said she faced a "tollgate" on the road to the middle class, and he ordered his economists to smooth the way. "I want a package that deals directly with this problem," he said. Through the summer and fall of 1999, Bush's economists, led by supply-sider Larry Lindsey, trooped down to Austin with proposal after proposal to lower the marginal tax rate for all payers and eliminate Bush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush and Gore: Two Men, Two Visions | 10/28/2000 | See Source »

...using the pumpkin in a ritual involving the underworld this weekend, and I'm going to be carving the pumpkin with wood-carving tools, so it needs to be smooth and fairly small," said Katja T. Esser...

Author: By David H. Gellis, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Searching for Great Pumpkins Is a Family Affair | 10/27/2000 | See Source »

...some families with small children, though, the combination of sharp knives and wet smooth surfaces was a bit too dangerous...

Author: By David H. Gellis, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Searching for Great Pumpkins Is a Family Affair | 10/27/2000 | See Source »

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