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...fizzled out early, and although Castellanos maintained good relations with the Dole camp, he figured he was finished for the rest of 1996. Then last week Dole tapped him to lead the advertising war against Bill Clinton. "It all proves that old Cuban saying," he said last Friday. "Never spit straight up in the air." And he never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN '96: ALEX HAS A CRISP, CLEAR WAY OF GOING FOR THE JUGULAR | 9/16/1996 | See Source »

...expect to see thirtysomething's famed yuppies, Mr. and Mrs. Michael Steadman, doing a lot less brooding. The CBS drama EZ Streets features Ken Olin as a non-Volvo-driving cop, while the NBC sitcom Something So Right has Mel Harris as a party planner unlikely to wear a spit-up-stained Princeton sweatshirt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FALL PREVIEW | 9/9/1996 | See Source »

...raise the c.r. issue. The timing seems a bit odd. The economy is moving along nicely, it seems, and the unemployment rate is a low 5.4%, courtesy of the more than 8 million jobs created, ahem, in the past 31/2 years. Yet the anxiety rate among workers, still being spit out in huge numbers by a transforming economy, is high enough to give the Democrats a platform. And Clinton will use it to spotlight corporations--Procter & Gamble, Harley-Davidson, Xerox and Starbucks--that the Democrats believe are "doing well by doing good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOOD FOR THE BOTTOM LINE | 5/20/1996 | See Source »

...what I really want to ask Leary is this: Do you hanker to wring your wife's treacherous neck? Finally, after three-quarters of the visiting hour has passed, the prisoner is escorted in. After devoting most of our talk to Spit, I finally get up the gumption to ask my question. "By the way, Tim, I don't mean to pry, but ... what's happening with your new, you know, since you last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KEN KESEY FLASHES BACK TO LEARY | 4/29/1996 | See Source »

...Zaks into a circus of Technicolor bawdry. He parades all the fine, low comedians and, for a hilarious moment, some tragedians too. Like Zaks' revival of Guys and Dolls, this Forum is a celebration of shtick. If a gag was ever funny, from Plautus' time to ours, he'll spit on it and spin it until you have to laugh unashamedly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: THEY DO MAKE 'EM LIKE THAT | 4/29/1996 | See Source »

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