Word: behinds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...your old record player. It's probably somewhere down there in the basement behind your broken-down Betamax, a Rubik's Cube or two, and a vinyl copy of Synchronicity. Cue up a record, and let it play. Congratulations--you're a musician. There may even be a spot for you on the rap-rock Family Values Tour...
...shows are working for TLC--whose daytime, toll-free, direct-response ads have been replaced by commercials from Wal-Mart and Sony. So assuming the more suspenseful Dating continues to perform, can tearful bat mitzvahs and confirmations be far behind? Gingold won't say, but he does drive one point home. "You won't be seeing divorces or funerals. This is happy...
...start by leaving work, and thoughts of work, behind as soon as we start the trip home. Think about how to make the most of the upcoming time with your family. And do something to get yourself in a good mood, whether it's listening to music in the car or reading a novel on the train, rather than returning calls on the cell phone. When you get home, change out of your work clothes, let the machine take your calls, and stay away from e-mail...
...Diary, translated by Ann Goldstein, purports to be an on-the-spot account of the sad tryst of a girl and her stepfather--the "real" story behind Humbert's besotted ravings in a book titled Lolita. We are told that Dolores ("Lolita") Maze (not Haze) met Humbert Guibert (not Humbert) in the home of her mother Isabel (not Charlotte); that Humbert took a fancy to Lo; that he married the mother to get to the daughter; that on the mother's death, Hum and Lo took to the open road, fitfully pursued by the girl's true love, playwright Gerry...
...plastic to scrap steel, and mold the refuse into raw materials to feed Taiwan's factories. Out of that garbage heap comes treasure. Last year the co-op brought in more than $100 million from customers like China Steel and Formosa Plastics. But money is not the motivation behind Wu's not-for-profit outfit. After paying office charges and the modest salaries of Wu and her staff of seven, recycling revenues go to co-op members, whose scrap yards provide thousands of jobs to poor, relatively unskilled Taiwanese...