Word: busters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Popular opinion, for instance, once held that only Justice could topple IBM's hardware hegemony, but the market proved a far better Big Blue buster than the feds. And two years ago, the irresistible force in online services was supposed to be the Microsoft Network, which, like this year's Explorer, came bundled into every last Windows machine. Instead, MSN floundered and AOL cleaned its clock. Microsoft may yet get its comeuppance (Java, anyone?), but digital history suggests it will come not from Washington but from some hitherto obscure geek who--just like young Bill, once upon a time--shatters...
...really run for president with a Buster Brown haircut? Ever since word spread that JOHN KASICH was interested in the White House, the irrepressible Ohio Congressman with a passion for balanced budgets and the Grateful Dead has been dogged by charges that he lacks the gravitas for the job. According to critics within his party, Kasich, 45, may be the G.O.P.'s most inspiring communicator, but he's too young, too arrogant and too unfocused to run for President. But TIME has learned that Kasich is so serious about getting into the race that he has assembled a team...
...Stone of old did make an appearance in the question-and-answer session. Warming to the audience, he ripped into modern American culture with zest, blaming the spiritually devoid lives of teens on pervasive media-influenced materialism. On the Block-buster Video and Wal-Mart policies forbidding NC-17 videos and many CD's: "I personally would like to blow up Blockbuster...I would like to nuke Wal-Mart...
Readings include several collections of essays on film theory from the French and Soviet traditions, and a large volume called A Short History of the Movies, featuring sections on film figures from Buster Keaton to David Lynch...
CHOLESTEROL BUSTER A study finds that the drug Lipitor seems better at lowering bad LDL cholesterol than similar medications...