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...wedged into the front seat of a brown 1940 Packard coupe. There was a dollar and a deck of cards in his pocket, a bottle of 1931 Chianti beside him and the ashes of his dog Smash in the back. He was set for the afterlife. To the whine of bagpipes, the Packard, steered by his widow Nancy Reddin Kienholz, rolled like a funeral barge into the big hole. All in all, it was the most Egyptian funeral ever held in Idaho...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: ALL-AMERICAN BARBARIC YAWP | 5/6/1996 | See Source »

...your obligation to back your vote with action, or to combat a political loss with a personal commitment to the people you thought your vote would help. But as much as you may whine about who's in office (and by all means you should whine if you feel that way), single mothers and immigrant families at Boston housing projects won't hear your--or my--complaints about gerrymandering or slick hair. They will hear us better, I think, if we--while learning ourselves from their own unique perspectives--offer to share our knowledge of the English language, or resume...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Volunteering Beats Voting | 4/4/1996 | See Source »

...year, and after that the dam could burst on Hollywood offers. Which suits him fine. "I would certainly like to do more films. Theater is harder. It takes a lot of stamina. As one gets older, one wants different things." A pause, then the familiar Nathan Lane whine: "I'm tired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATHAN LANE--UNCAGED | 3/25/1996 | See Source »

...THEY WHINE ABOUT THEIR NEglectful, misunderstanding parents. They are snotty with one another and sullen in the face of authority. Sometimes they are arrogant, sometimes they are wimpish, all the time they are horny. They are, in short, 1960s preppies, tiresome enough at the time and hardly less so in retrospect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: WATERLOGGED | 2/12/1996 | See Source »

...surging through my veins. Just by packing up and moving across the country I have become a better person, a clearer-eyed political visionary, a more patriotic American. And, of course, less smug. What's more, I have been transformed from victimizer to victim. I'm newly empowered to whine and complain about high taxes (though now my taxes are, in fact, lower) and about wasteful government spending of my hard-earned dollars (though, in fact, what with federally subsidized public works, utilities and national parks, I'm getting far more for my federal tax dollars living in the West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OUTSIDE THE BELTWAY | 1/8/1996 | See Source »

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