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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...white van in which Willis sat by himself, his girth filling much of the passenger's side. He took off his headphones and chastised an imagined "motherf----er" in the back of the van before punching himself in the head and immediately apologizing to me for doing so. A brief conversation ensued. He sold me a CD, "Dr. Wax." Willis then grabbed the back of my head and instructed me to say "Rah!," which I did, and then he head-butted me right on the enormous callus that sits in the middle of his forehead from repeated buttings. This happened...

Author: By Benjamin D. Mathis-lilley, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Sucking a Caribou's Ass?: An Evening With the World's Weirdest Rock Star | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

...came back around 10. (Willis left the Middle East for a brief interlude, during which he received an honorary membership from the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine. "They were nice," he said.) I interviewed him while he sat against the Middle East's wall, selling CDs out of a giant box, greeting, head butting and autographing stuff for a constant stream of fans, from fraternity types to XZpunk rockers, most of whom treated him with either shocked amusement or the kind of condescension which I was trying...

Author: By Benjamin D. Mathis-lilley, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Sucking a Caribou's Ass?: An Evening With the World's Weirdest Rock Star | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

After each councillor gave a brief statement, a roll call vote was taken...

Author: By Jonathan F. Taylor, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: City Council Approves Pollution Ordinance | 11/2/1999 | See Source »

...score extra sandwiches. Basically she blames her jones for carbs as the cause of her unhappy past. "They have actually located what they call the carbohydrate-craving gene, which is on chromosome number 11, close to the alcoholism gene and the cocaine-addiction gene," she says, before taking a brief talking break to join her husband in a mating dance that involves methodically removing the croutons from their chicken Caesar salad. Though her science may be suspect, her earnestness is not. During the meal, she leans over the table to confide details from her fat, ugly past. "I have stretch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Low-Carb Diet Craze | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

...Behind the Curtain with the Krokodiloes," Harvard's oldest a capella troupe reveals a few drinking habits of their own (see page 8). While beer takes a back seat to pretzels, pizza and peanuts in "Ballpark Wisdom" (see page 6), its presence is beyond required in "(Gulp!) A Brief History of Goldfish Swallowing" (see page...

Author: By Kevin E. Meyers, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Confessions of an Autumnophile | 10/14/1999 | See Source »

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