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...circumstances are different, to be sure, but if anyone knows what life in the Senate is like for a party switcher, it's Ben Nighthorse Campbell, the bolo-wearin', Harley-ridin' Senator from Colorado. When Campbell left the Democrats for the Republicans in 1995, no balance of power was at stake, but that didn't make things any easier. "It's burned into my memory forever," says Campbell of the weeks after his switch. "You just get hammered on awfully hard." The awkwardness lasted a few weeks, he reports. But despite presumed similarities, the Senate functions with a little more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Party Crasher's Survival Guide | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

...feature a game called Guess the Jew, in which callers try to pick the Semitic celebrity from a choice of three. Or a good-looking actress might show up in the studio and set off Stern's riotous hormones. (To Sally Kirkland: "I'm completely aroused by you . . . You wearin' underpants?") Stern demeans women, insults blacks, makes fun of the handicapped. Comedian Richard Pryor, who suffers from multiple sclerosis, should come on as a guest, says Stern, so they can "watch him go in and out of the conversation." Stern then imitates a slurring Pryor trying to remember the name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shock Jock | 11/30/1992 | See Source »

...Emma's cute little shitkickers and Ellis' golden drugstorecowboy suit. I 'specially liked what th' two thugs (Laurence Thomsen n' Eric Oleson) wear: plaid bellbottoms n' white chaps, respectively (n' the yo-yo is a nice touch, Laurence). Not too accurate--no self-respectin' Westerner would be caught dead wearin' these costumes--but creative noneth'less...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Just a Story About Some Cowboys | 7/19/1988 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock's Renaissance Man | 10/27/1986 | See Source »

...Whatsa matter, lady--you get all you clothes from Eastern Mountain Sports? Ain't you seen kids 'round here wearin' these hats? We're the Death Angels, me an' a bunch of guys. We got the cops 'round here so scared...

Author: By Naomi L. Pierce, | Title: He Looked a Little Like Allen Ginsberg | 12/8/1982 | See Source »

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