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...TIME WHEN NEW AGE SEEMS old, postmodern seems prehistoric and the anti- Establishment energy of grunge rock is being packaged and marketed like so many Cheez Doodles, Depeche Mode's musical vision of the future already seems a thing of the past: too-cool-to-care vocals, lyrics like something off an answering machine at a suicide hotline, industrial-strength dance grooves as unforgiving as capitalism itself. In retrospect, many of the band's angst- laden hits -- Master and Servant, Fly on the Windscreen -- now seem so terribly '80s, dispassionate, cold and metallic. Music written by androids, produced by cyborgs...
...that the author is clearly an equal- opportunity disdainer. New Zealanders are shabby and provincial, he complains. Aussies are rude, foulmouthed and drink too much. Tongans are lazy, quarrelsome and mean to their children. Samoans are greedy, hostile and obese, perhaps because their junk-food diet consists mostly of "Cheez Balls" and corned beef saturated with hippo fat. (Did their liking for the latter, Theroux wonders, derive from their ancestors' enjoyment of "long pig" -- that is, human flesh?) And almost everywhere he found God-swanking missionaries, usually Mormons or Methodists, who seemed mesmerized by the thought of preaching the gospel...
...this week's cover with managing editor Henry Muller and executive editor Edward Jamieson . . . Less than two hours after the cover was scheduled, a New York Post reporter called to ask if it was true that TIME was working on a cover story about gossip . . . Like peanut butter and Cheez Whiz, gossip sure has a way of spreading...
There are, of course, food purists who treat the microwave with the disdain once reserved for Cheez Whiz -- a product, incidentally, that is undergoing a dramatic resurrection because it is so gooily microwavable. Julia Child generously calls the microwave a "wonderful invention" before adding with a sniff, "I don't go in for it myself. I like regular cooking. I like to smell the food, poke it and look...
...have some great memories of my first year:our wine cooler' and cheez whiz party whichevolved into a pineapple fight that nearlydestroyed our room; Duke singing "Hey Jude" infalsetto in time with his walkman, unaware thatothers could hear him; the Mets winning the WorldSeries over the Red Sox; Ben participating in hisfirst-ever snowball fight...