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OVERRATED Barbara Walters with Anne Heche. Promoted ad nauseam, Babs' interview with the wayward actress turned out to be an egregious example of the celebrity confessional as career move. At least Condit spared us the psychobabble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Over & Under | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

...derided himself." Or, "If one of his own men had pulled a stunt like this, he'd have their stripes for it." Cliches fester on nearly every page: "hollow threat" on 87, "no mean feat" on 88. Dialogue is rarely "said"; it is "whined," "quipped" or "grunted" ad, literally, nauseam. Supposedly admirable characters "smirk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Case Of Fowl Play | 4/30/2001 | See Source »

...Leftfield’s pulsating “Phat Planet” is a listenable, likable tune suffused with kinetic joy and drenched in brilliant shades of electronic tones, Mirwais’ own entry resembles nothing so much as a broken record, mindlessly churning out the same garbage ad nauseam. The vital energy is lacking, leaving nothing behind but a sparse wasteland of broken notes...

Author: By Marcus L. Wang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: C’est Mal: Frenchman Mirwais Flops | 4/6/2001 | See Source »

...made stars of bulls like Blodget and Meeker by putting them on the air day after day while the bubble was still bloating. These watchdogs now insist that analysts answer for their miscalls. O.K., but who's insisting that the TV folk answer for airing this stuff ad nauseam and without balance? The print world isn't blameless either. Nobody wanted to hear that Net stocks were incendiary. Audiences would have tuned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Not Their Fault | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

...maybe that's OK, after all. Maybe Republicans have come to terms with the fact that they're not, and will never be, the party of youth. An old chestnut, circulated ad nauseam this year, goes like this: "Anyone who's young and isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart. Anyone who's old and isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain." So Bush may be doing the right thing, biding his time and waiting for voters to gray before he makes his pitch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Wonder Young People Don't Vote! We're Ignored! | 11/2/2000 | See Source »

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