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...this time, if the White House can be believed, Clinton was just plain mad. On Saturday night he and his Camp David houseguests watched The Boxer, a dense drama of personal and political pain in Northern Ireland. Then he got on the phone with the trashman, James Carville, who in 1992 ran the war room and commandeered the phrase "speed kills" to express the belief that when you get attacked, you should fire back immediately. Carville does not have much contact with Clinton from week to week, much less day to day, but he is an almost mystical checkpoint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Outrageous Fortune | 3/30/1998 | See Source »

...Senator Joseph McCarthy, who made the mistake of calling her Alice: "The policeman and the trashman may call me Alice. You cannot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Malicious Wit | 3/3/1980 | See Source »

After spending some time with Kermit, Miss Piggy, Trashman and the rest of Jim Henson's Muppets, the members of our staff who worked on this week's Show Business story underwent a remarkable transformation. They all began by assuming that Muppets were strictly for kids, but they ended up shaking Kermit's hand, being cautious in the presence of Statler and Waldorf, and avoiding the near lethal karate chops of Miss Piggy. "It's magic," says Reporter-Researcher Janice Castro. "The Muppets have something that is real: straightforward humanity. All of their feelings are right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Dec. 25, 1978 | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

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