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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...What I do really is sleight of hand," he says. "Making it look like you've got 10 pounds in a five-pound bag...

Author: By Raymond G. Huessy, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Huessy, 'Human Xerox Machine,' Duplicates the World for the Stage | 6/8/1999 | See Source »

...high dosage of vitamin E are not yet proved. She and other colleagues point out that food, unlike pills and extracts, contains trace elements that may have benefits not yet recognized. What they fear is encouraging the habit of chasing a handful of pills with a Slurpee and a bag of popcorn and calling it a well-rounded meal. Russell and Lichtenstein are not fighting, but their emphases are a little different. Russell stresses that one must get vitamins, Lichtenstein that one must eat. They agree that the most intelligent course is to get the maximum vitamin and mineral intake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: Diets For Life | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

David Foster Wallace's Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (Little, Brown; 274 pages; $24) is a mixed bag of 23 essays and short stories that display a range of intellect and talent that is unseemly for any one writer to have, let alone show off. Like the author's earlier work, this collection is designed to keep readers from getting too comfortable. You know the feeling if you had trouble keeping up with the plot lines, arcana and footnotes that spread like kudzu through the 1,000 pages of Wallace's 1996 novel, Infinite Jest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sex, Lies and Semiotics | 5/31/1999 | See Source »

...little over a week before the movie opened, Melissa took the T to Alewife with a sleeping bag, a science book and a bunch of granola bars, planning to sleep on the sidewalk so she could get a ticket for opening day. They were starting sales at 3 p.m. the next day. When she arrived at the theater, she looked around, confused. She didn't understand...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, | Title: Finding the Force | 5/24/1999 | See Source »

PLEASE NOTE All drugs are fake except for a bag of marijuana, which is locked away and alarmed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Worth A Trip | 5/17/1999 | See Source »

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