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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Inglis, a member of the House Judiciary Committee, has tried to yoke his opponent to Bill Clinton, who even Hollings acknowledges is "as popular as AIDS in South Carolina." With a studied worriedness, Inglis shakes his head over Hollings' refusal to call for the President's resignation. "I wonder if you are one of the 34 votes he is counting on to cling to power," he asks Hollings. Hardly a Clinton buddy--he bucked him on the right to negotiate trade deals on a fast track and joked about his dating habits--Hollings considered asking for the President's resignation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pork on the Griddle | 11/2/1998 | See Source »

...STEVIE WONDER People [used] to scream about explicit lyrics in rap music. Today those same people...put explicit information on the Internet for any child to see...I'm glad I'm blind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 2, 1998 | 11/2/1998 | See Source »

What brings out what the psychologists call pricing behavior even in my wife is the Las Vegas custom of emphasizing how much any new hotel costs--a custom I think of as conspicuous capitalization. If a hotel boasts about costing $1.6 billion, it's no wonder that my wife--who, like many people of royal birth brought up in middle-class American families through mix-ups at the hospital, prefers down pillows--might be inclined to bounce her fist off a hard rubber pillow and comment, "The money must be somewhere else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making Money off High Costs | 11/2/1998 | See Source »

...Compleat Wrks really isn't much different than what you'd find on 10 randomly selected pages of the Riverside Edition. With men playing women, pathetic melodrama, the overuse of gaudy props (i.e. silly string which makes several repeat appearances as a vomit substitute) one begins to wonder if this isn't Shakespeare as it was meant to be. A frequent object of ridicule throughout the show are Shakespeare companies that fret about making Shakespeare accessible to modern audiences. The show suggests that it is not Shakespeare, but the standard notions of how Shakespeare should be produced that are inaccessible...

Author: By Carla A. Blackmar, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Smashing in Spandex: Playing it Again at the Loeb Experimental | 10/30/1998 | See Source »

...other hand, Erik A. Beech '02 agreedwith much of what Whitman said. "I agree with themain points of her address and I wonder why morewomen haven't spoken out against the actions ofthe President," he said...

Author: By Robert K. Silverman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Whitman Improvises Inflammatory Speech | 10/30/1998 | See Source »

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