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...Dole will start waving his wizened arm like a magic wand, frantically trying to capture the delegates he needs to win in San Diego. He will tell and retell the story of how his right arm was paralyzed. If his poll numbers continue to slip, he will begin adding tasteless details about shrapnel fragments, and finally, he will start choking into tears as he recounts the tale of his sacrifice...

Author: By David W. Brown, | Title: WHEN DOLE GETS DESPERATE | 2/10/1996 | See Source »

YOUR COVER WITH ITS PHOTOMONTAGE of Senator Bob Dole's head on top of General Powell's uniformed body was the most tasteless thing I have ever seen. I was greatly offended by TIME's disrespect to two of the most significant men in this country today. DOROTHY GENTRY DeSoto, Texas Via E-mail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 11, 1995 | 12/11/1995 | See Source »

What's taking so long? Like Camille Paglia in the feminist literary sphere, D'Souza will say whatever it takes to attract attention, no matter how tasteless, irresponsible or distorted. He contends that white racism is no longer much of a problem in the U.S. Instead, all our racial troubles can be traced to the fact that "black culture" is so dysfunctional it amounts to a "civilizational" gap between African Americans and the rest of society. He does not bother to differentiate between the crime-ridden urban underclass and the middle-class high achievers such as Woodson, head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BIGOT'S HANDBOOK | 10/2/1995 | See Source »

...says he severely regretted naming the other student in his fiction. Judge Avern Cohn, in his dismissal order today, noted that the government lost enthusiasm for the case "once it recognized that the communication which so much alarmed the University of Michigan officials was only a rather savage and tasteless piece of fiction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NETWATCH . . . STUDENT CLEARED OF ONLINE "RAPE" | 6/21/1995 | See Source »

...some of them costing up to $1,400, Savoy is a purist who prefers French to English, forbids amplification at his jam sessions and plasters the walls of his workshop with chauvinistic folk homilies ("Some Cajuns are turning their back on a hot bowl of gumbo for a cold, tasteless American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOT OFF THE BAYOU | 5/8/1995 | See Source »

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