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Word: betweeners (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Between the worn-out trailers and the HUD homes on the St. Regis Mohawk reservation sits an incongruous stretch of newly built mansions. From his patrol car, Wesley Benedict, the tribal police chief, points out a red brick palazzo and a white gabled mansion. "Most of those are built with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People Smuggling Is A Good Business | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

There are 151 Pokemon scattered among three existing versions of the game: Pokemon Red, Pokemon Blue and Pokeman Yellow. You have to trade between versions (via a cable linking Game Boys) to complete the collection. Thus the quest for all Pokemon grows as the product line expands with new species...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beware of the Poke Mania | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

Now 34, Tajiri is an unimposing man, his face composed of sharp angles. His hands and lips tremble as he talks in a soft, shy voice. His eyes are bloodshot; dark circles ripple beneath them. He often works for 24 hours straight, then sleeps for 12. Tajiri is the kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beware of the Poke Mania | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

With a handful of fellow junkies (including his friend Ken Sugimori, who would eventually draw all the Pokemon), Tajiri began a magazine called GameFreak in 1982 to publicize tips and cheat codes of their favorite games. "Our conclusion was," he says, "there weren't too many good-quality games, so...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beware of the Poke Mania | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

Set in medieval Japan, Mononoke imagines a war involving several bands of humans--and a more desperate battle between man and the environment. Ashitaka (given voice in Neil Gaiman's American adaptation by Billy Crudup), the youngest survivor of a vanishing tribe, is gored by a demon boar that is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Amazing Anime | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

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