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...cringingly suspect that someone in marketing at Time Warner thought he'd release a new Morrissey CD, whether Morrissey had anything good left or not. It looks like someone raided the depths of the freezer and made a 16 course meal out of two-year-old freezer-burned chicken and crystallized Chinese takeout...

Author: By Eliot Schrefer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Twenty-First Century Still Breathing Down Morrissey's Neck | 10/2/1998 | See Source »

Which isn't to say that some people don't like freezer-burned chicken. A few pieces on this CD are downright edible. The rest, however, should have been tossed out last spring...

Author: By Eliot Schrefer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Twenty-First Century Still Breathing Down Morrissey's Neck | 10/2/1998 | See Source »

...national level. And it's not a knockoff. It's by the same guy. It's like Colonel Sanders opening a new chicken restaurant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bobcat Goldthwait | 9/14/1998 | See Source »

...renominate Viktor Chernomyrdin for prime minister despite his resounding rejection by the Duma on Monday, the Communists and nationalists who control the legislature may nominate their own candidate -- and the outcome of the power struggle will shape the future of Russian economic reform. "It's a serious game of chicken that could get out of control," says Quinn-Judge. And while contending factions tussle for control of the wheel, the ship is sinking fast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Summit Shocks Await Clinton | 9/1/1998 | See Source »

...Doubles players. The oversize racquet head was only one of many weapons in our quiver. We are also the kind of Bad Doubles players who are not above yelling "Misssssssss-it!" when someone on the far side of the net is serving. Plus we tend to do a little "chicken" victory dance after winning any point, to a loudly hummed rendition of Do the Hustle. Still, I'd have to say it was technology--the oversize head--that catapulted us to the ranks of truly brilliant Bad Doubles players...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tennis Technology | 8/24/1998 | See Source »

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