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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Humor columnist Dave Barry has written his first novel, Big Trouble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dave Barry | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

Role-playing has a long history in pop music. In the 1950s, a Beaumont, Texas, deejay named J.P. Richardson stepped into his on-air radio persona, the Big Bopper, and scored a hit single, Chantilly Lace. And in the 1970s, David Bowie took on the role of Ziggy Stardust, an otherworldly rock-'n'-roller. Brooks makes it clear he's just playing a role, not living it or attempting some full Andy Kaufmanesque submersion. He may have recorded a rock CD, but he makes no claims that he's a rocker. "I'm a country artist," he says, "and very...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Different Hat | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

...sleeping under boxes and generally surviving on schemes and scams. He's a prodigy, strong and cunning and passionate, but as mired in misfortune as his native land, whose history soon becomes mixed up with his own. Henry and Ireland, Ireland and Henry--for Doyle they're the same big, bloody mess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Best of the Boyos | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

...BIG TOBACCO Feds file megabucks lawsuit. And this time your G.O.P. pals may not be able to save...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Oct. 4, 1999 | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

Watching Ethan Allen closely will be Heilig-Meyers, the nation's biggest furniture retailer, with more than 800 stores. The traditional Heilig customer is lower-middle income and lives in a small town--not a big online demographic. Today Heilig has a modest informational website, where customers can print coupons and find stores but not shop. "We're not certain that anyone has got a profitable business model yet in this industry, and so we're taking a wait-and-see attitude," explains Brian Hopping, a Heilig spokesman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tales From The E-Commerce Front | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

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