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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stall in Bismarck, N.D., she was a victim of geography. There were few buyers in her hometown of 54,000, and prices were low. She started putting her wares up for auction on eBay last year and suddenly found herself part of the global marketplace. An Art Deco ashtray she bought for $20 was bid up quickly--and sold for $290. A vase she got for $5 went to a California buyer--for $585. She even sold an old tractor online--for $2,300, to a priest from New York. Checks have been pouring in from as far away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside eBay.com: The Attic of e | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

Infants, hold your noses. Lactating moms who smoke seem to produce breast milk that tastes like, well, a dirty ashtray. One cigarette is enough to bring on the foul flavor--and it does so within half an hour of lighting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Health: Nov. 30, 1998 | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

Usually (I don't know why) I see an unhappy woman who has drunk herself to sleep. The lit cigarette, which she thought she placed in the ashtray from the Stork Club, has rolled off the night table toward the chintz curtains. She dreams of the man she loved long ago and of a blazing fireplace. The dream is vivid. She can even smell the smoke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Regarding the Haunted House | 11/2/1998 | See Source »

...groovy arched roof and fenders to a funky blue speedometer, the new Beetle--introduced last week at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit--is a motorized monument to Flower Power nostalgia. All that's missing is a Day-Glo paint job and a roach clip in the ashtray. But the Beetle will be a much trickier resurrection than bell-bottoms now that boomers seem partial to cars and trucks big enough to fit a Bug in the back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VW's New Bug: Cute But... | 1/19/1998 | See Source »

...surprisingly, the evening ended with two encores, featuring what are arguably the best songs in lang's repertoire, including, of course, the self-described "medley of my hit," "Constant Craving." In a fantastic piece of theater, lang followed "Constant Craving" with Patsy Cline's "Three Cigarettes in an Ashtray," which she sang while sitting at a cafe table brought in especially for that song. But most moving of all was "Infinite and Unforeseen," a song about finding love in the most obvious of places and finding home in one's own backyard. She prefaced this climactic performance with a dedication...

Author: By Erika L. Guckenberger, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Take a 'Drag': Lang Smokes in Symphony Hall | 10/24/1997 | See Source »

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