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...over and force them to vote against it again and again. Let's see how eager they are to be tagged soft on crime." Clever politics? Maybe. Good policy? Hardly. There's still time to do it right, still time to pass a bill the President can finally accurately tout as the "biggest, toughest and smartest" ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Political Interest: Fix the Crime Bill Now | 8/22/1994 | See Source »

...young, hip and artsy in Calgary, Canada. A gay painter (Michael J. Blankenship), blocked in his work, tries to jolt himself by taking a job as a waiter. To help the young couple who own the restaurant, he induces his closest female friend, a beguilingly bitchy columnist, to tout it in print. The place thrives. So does passion between the painter and the young husband (Damian Baldet, a conservatory student giving a captivating and confidently professional performance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: Flatfoots and Footlights | 5/9/1994 | See Source »

Some black-studies courses tout the powers of a skin pigment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magazine Contents Page | 4/4/1994 | See Source »

...summoned to a gathering of the masculine tribes, like a jamboree of the Indian nations in Montana long ago -- a Pandaemonium of the patriarchy, a sweat lodge of the Granphalloon, Le Tout Guyim: as if the entire male audience of the Super Bowl had been vacuumed through 100 million television tubes (thuuuuppp!) and reassembled in one vast bass- and baritone- and tenor-buzzing hive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Men Are They Really That Bad? | 2/14/1994 | See Source »

Only a few years ago, viewers of very, very late-night TV were treated to a mock talk show more entertaining than most of the real ones. The host of the show was Lyle Waggoner, and its purpose was to tout a purchasable cure for impotence. Here was celebrity hawking at its historic low: an infomercial for a bogus product endorsed by a TV "star" whose glory days (as The Carol Burnett Show cast member who most resembled George Hamilton) came during the Nixon Administration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Make Way for the Sellevangelists | 1/31/1994 | See Source »

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