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...actually see it) had me gawking in dumbfounded amazement at the brazen act of courage which it must have taken for the producers to actually put the scene on film. As Mona fights Joyce the TV journalist (a newly resurrected JoJo thirsty for revenge) and other silicone-enhanced plastic barbie dolls in her quest towards "true beauty," I continued to be repeatedly shocked into a state of coma by amazing feats of horrific taste. Some of the lines had me hiding behind the seat in front of me in complete and total embarrassment. Genuine tears of suppressed emotional trauma were...

Author: By Mildred M. Yuan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Beauty gouged out the eye of this beholder | 9/29/2000 | See Source »

...give anybody there a reason to vote for George W. Bush (though he did take a stand on the Constitution as a living document, which nobody there seemed to mind at all). In fact, the punch line question of the night actually gave Gore the most trouble. "Paper or plastic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gore Finds the Kids Are Alright | 9/27/2000 | See Source »

...Paper or plastic. Gore didn't want to choose, each option carrying its own environmental stigma. "Paper, just because I like the paper," he said, after grimacing theatrically. But he had a third way of his own. "How about this - you just lump it up in your arms and take it like that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gore Finds the Kids Are Alright | 9/27/2000 | See Source »

...Bill Clinton, it's "boxers or briefs." For Gore it's "paper or plastic." Yep, that about sums...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gore Finds the Kids Are Alright | 9/27/2000 | See Source »

Murray Gerber, founder of Prototype & Plastic Mold Co., based in Middleton, Conn., developed lighter, safer, cheaper, longer-lasting industrial bearings for United Technologies in the '90s. Without the tax credit, which went to United Technologies, Gerber doubts that his tiny, $9 million company would have received the R.-and-D. contract. Now those bearings are in wide use throughout the military...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hooray For R. and D. | 9/25/2000 | See Source »

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