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- Feb. 01, 1993: Fanfare for the Common Star
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Feb. 01, 1993 Clinton's First Blunder
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- PEOPLE, Page 73
- Fanfare for the Common Star
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- <p>By GINIA BELLAFANTE
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- <p> Inaugural Week 1993. It will be recorded as the time
- Hollywood descended on the Potomac shedding tears of ecstasy
- that flowed more generously than champagne and a lot more easily
- than the traffic. "All the times I've been on the Mall, I've
- been protesting. This time I had something joyful to cry about,"
- chimed Judy Collins, who performed a moving Amazing Grace at
- Tuesday's Presidential Gala. Indeed, for a few days Washington
- became a giant welcome mat for every emotive liberal with a car
- phone and a good agent. Especially ubiquitous participants in
- the high-performance pomp and pageantry: MICHAEL JACKSON, BARBRA
- STREISAND and, of course, unearthed relic FLEETWOOD MAC. One
- notable highlight: Babs delivered Evergreen for President
- Clinton in what seemed a dizzy, politically love-struck
- delirium. Naturally, the young and the restlessly hip reveled
- too. The real hot ticket? The MTV Ball visited by the likes of
- Bill and Al. R.E.M.'s activist vocalist MICHAEL STIPE showed up
- for the bash and joined 10,000 Maniacs' NATALIE MERCHANT for a
- rendition of the '60s hit To Sir with Love. In the end though,
- all the song and glory seemed off-putting for some, or at least
- for some named Rush Limbaugh. "I'm tired of all these people
- singing," he whined, "like they've been imprisoned for years and
- now they're finally free."
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