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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fortunately, inside this too-thick book is a thin one: Bill's Story, which shows how these two were catastrophes waiting to self-destruct upon impact. Bill and Monica are equally immature, with bottomless needs, heedless narcissism and steamer trunks of emotional baggage, destined to fall into a carnal swoon hours after they met. That thong flash in the chief of staff's office, which certainly grabbed the President's attention, could have landed her in Secret Service leg irons, but to her it was just "one step further in their flirtation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Story Within the Story | 3/15/1999 | See Source »

...music on a deejay website that encouraged users to remix his work and e-mail the new creations to others; he's now putting the finishing touches on his own site. The California-based company Liquid Audio offers free downloads of songs by groups like Hole that self-destruct after a few days, teasing listeners to buy the whole CD. In the physical world, because of promotion and production costs, musicians release songs in bunches, and fans often have to wait years between CDs. Online, a number of acts, including rockers Todd Rundgren, hip-hop stars Beastie Boys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music Without Labels | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

...Bill Clinton and Ken Starr both on the cover? I'm surprised this issue didn't self-destruct and take my mailbox along with it." JUDI MILLER Plainville, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 18, 1999 | 1/18/1999 | See Source »

...over with a fine-tooth comb. By all accounts, Gorbachev shouldn't have been Gorbachev. Then the pundits study the politics of the Soviet Union, evoke the shadow of Ronald Reagan and Star Wars, drag out tables and graphs to show that the Soviet economy was doomed to self-destruct, that it already had, that the country couldn't have gone on that way any longer. But what was Reagan to us, when we had managed to overcome Hitler, all while living in the inhuman conditions of Stalinism? No single approach--and there have been many--can explain Gorbachev. Perhaps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mikhail Gorbachev | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

...ancestors survive and reproduce, such as eating and fornicating. Though few men share an alpha male's opportunities for sexual addiction, any smoker who has kicked the habit rather than die young, only to then fall off the wagon, knows the mighty logic that can make a presidency self-destruct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Crisis: Politics Made Me Do It | 2/2/1998 | See Source »

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