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...talent--alcoholics and playboys--and in them he moved easily: as the cowardly G.I. in The Young Lions or the sodden gambler in Some Came Running. He spends most of 1959's Rio Bravo, his best film, staring mournfully at a whiskey bottle he'd like to suck dry. Defeat glazes his eyes; it's the rare movie portrait of an alcoholic that skirts both sensation and sentiment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CROONING TOWARD OBLIVION: DEAN MARTIN (1917-1995) | 1/8/1996 | See Source »

...SUCK-UP HERE: First-term House Republican Linda Smith bucked her leaders by pushing in vain for radical campaign-finance reform that would have banned pac money and out-of-state contributions. As she said, "You can't perform surgery in a dirty operating room and with a team that hasn't scrubbed." LOW POINTS THE SUCKER AWARD: Republican presidential hopefuls rushed to genuflect at the Dallas conclave summoned by Ross Perot. Six weeks later, Perot announced the formation of an independent party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best And Worst Of Politics In 1995 | 12/25/1995 | See Source »

...just going to have to suck it up this year, but we should be OK in the future," Smith said...

Author: By Andrew A. Green, | Title: Bad Accounting Results in U.C. Financial Woes | 12/1/1995 | See Source »

...appreciate your attempts at diversity. But your pies lack a certain "Je ne said quoi,'" a student wrote on one of the infamous yellow cards. "By this I mean they suck shit...

Author: By David L. Greene, | Title: Faculty Show Talents at AIDS Benefit | 12/1/1995 | See Source »

...majority, though, were a bit critical. "I mean this as a constructive comment," Berry read. "The egg rolls suck...

Author: By David L. Greene, | Title: Faculty Show Talents at AIDS Benefit | 12/1/1995 | See Source »

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