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Periodically, these stints would be interrupted by a shot at the big time, which Regis would invariably blow.
After brief stints as a copy boy for the NYT in college and as an Army reporter in Vietnam, Gore took a job at the the Tennessean --which was then a popular stop-off for the idealistic sons of political figures (the sons of Robert Kennedy, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., and John Sirica had worked there).
Apparently, Josef Korbel was a minor celebrity during his stints there, and his conversion to Catholicism and his parents' deaths in the Holocaust were reported in the city's papers.
The covers of Time and Newsweek feature tell-alls by Clinton insiders about their bruising stints in the White House.
Critics are especially pleased that, for a sex film, it "stints on sex" (Richard Corliss, Time ). Dissenting, New York 's David Denby wishes it had more insights into the porn industry: It "doesn't really satisfy our curiosity about this ...