Word: tuckers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...decisions he's made, he hesitates, as if he can't think of any. "Well, the toughest decision was to run," he says at first. He pauses again and then recalls two death-penalty decisions, including his well-publicized refusal to grant a stay of execution to Karla Faye Tucker, that are featured in his book A Charge to Keep, which will be published next week. The next tough call that comes to mind: "The decision to fire Bobby Valentine" as manager of the Texas Rangers when Bush was co-owner...
...hidden away in odd corners, most reliably at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), the List Visual Arts Center and the Rose Art Museum. A new sculpture park is in the works at the Univeristy of Massachusetts at Boston, under the very ambitious direction of art historian Paul Tucker. Pieces by Richard Serra, Nancy Holt and Ursula von Rydingsvard should be coming in within the next year or so, and Tucker has had encouraging conversations with Jenny Holzer, Maya Lin and Judy Chicago. In the meantime, if you go a little out of your way, there's plenty of good...
...resembles more closely at times the indulged baby boomer who currently occupies the Oval Office than the restorative repository of moral authority he purports to be. In an interview with Talk magazine, he bragged about not liking to read heavy public-policy tomes and mimicked convicted killer Karla Faye Tucker's begging for her life on Larry King Live (which she never did). He then blew off his foreign policy shortfalls (referring to Greeks as "Grecians," confusing Slovenia with Slovakia) by suggesting he could hire people for that sort of thing. He recently boasted to a class in Bedford...
...little he cares about his image, in stark contrast to the relentlessly image-conscious Clinton. Bush also wants us to know that, unlike the legendarily wonkish president, he isn't a nerd. Has the number of abortions fallen during his governorship? "I don't know, probably down," he told Tucker Carlson of Talk magazine over the summer. Let a lesser man memorize statistics...
...crafted most of Midler's routines, including her bawdy Sophie Tucker jokes ("I was in bed last night with m' boyfriend Ernie...") and her farewell song to Johnny Carson (You Made Me Watch You). He helped Billy Crystal with the '90s' most sit-throughable Oscar shows, capped by the 1993 gender-bending song parody (to the tune of The Tender Trap): "Those eyes/ Those thighs/ Surprise!/It's The Crying Game." He was the writer when Whoopi Goldberg performed before President and Mrs. Clinton--and when Ted Danson did his blackface bit at a 1993 Friars Club banquet. "He told...