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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fusing it all to an lo-fi punk philosophy, Beck wandered into the limelight as the ultimate slacker geek, announcing his own cheerful uselessness. His clueless sound had a certain novelty appeal, but he seemed less like a suave rock star than like a rock star's whiny younger brother, whose upstart nonsense was original, but couldn't be taken too seriously...

Author: By Jared S. White, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Beck's Post-Success Stress | 10/30/1998 | See Source »

What Strong's book doesn't explain is why kids who haven't been sexually or physically abused during their childhood resort to cutting. On Dateline NBC, the subject had suffered her parents' painful divorce in early childhood, which, with the birth of a physically and mentally disabled younger brother, was enough to produce self-injury later in life...

Author: By Meredith B. Osborn, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cutting the Pain Away | 10/30/1998 | See Source »

...into an exclusive (and illegal) deal, where AOL would get a cute launch button on the Windows desktop -- if it sold its service-provider soul exclusively to Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Netscape would be provided only if users asked for it ?- a deal that Redmond enforced by playing Big Brother. "Microsoft has carefully monitored references to Navigator and Netscape on the AOL service," said AOL senior vice president David Colborn, the government's latest witness Wednesday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Victims of Microsoft | 10/28/1998 | See Source »

...vote against tobacco," coos a comely blond from her suburban kitchen in one TV spot. "But if you're against higher taxes and bigger bureaucracy, vote no on Prop 10." Last week, tobacco companies were busy faxing around an endorsement from the Los Angeles Times' political columnist. "So Big Brother, what's next?" wrote George Skelton. "A surtax on beer? Red meat? American cheddar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meathead's Crusade | 10/26/1998 | See Source »

...convinced that David is Bud, a.k.a. Sport, and that Jennifer, now outfitted in a poodle-skirt-and-sweater set, is Mary Sue--Muffin to her doting dad. Weirdest of all, the whole town is in black-and-white. "We're supposed to be at home, David," Jennifer scolds her brother. "We're supposed to be in color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Shading the Past | 10/26/1998 | See Source »

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