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...Straight Edge, an unstructured international movement of young people, many of them pacifists who don't get high or sleep around and would never dream of calling themselves gang members. Even Utah's nonviolent Straight Edgers, who constitute the vast majority of the state's several hundred members, are clueless as to what went wrong here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mutant Brady Bunch | 8/30/1999 | See Source »

...klutzy way. But the largest fun lies in the other characters: jut-jawed Kent Mansley, the funny-dumb government agent who has bought into the whole duck-and-cover thing; Dean, the beatnik junk sculptor whose cool helps thwart Kent's heat; Hogarth's mother, an old-fashioned, benignly clueless sit-com mom. Together they create a smart live-and-let-live parable, full of glancing, acute observations on all kinds of big subjects--life, death, the military-industrial complex--that you can talk about with the kids for a long time to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Iron King | 8/16/1999 | See Source »

...mother lode of tourists is not the Air and Space Museum or the Washington Monument, but rather the region right next to the foot of Metro escalators. D.C. workers complain incessantly of the constant clogging of the Metro system by clueless tourists, but blame the geniuses who created the most confusing form of mass transportation in the nation, maybe even the world. The system charges different amounts for every trip, implements other prices at rush hour and forces passengers to use their cards to get both in and out of the stations. Locals have no trouble with this...

Author: By Victoria C. Hallett, | Title: A Native's Guide to Tourist-Watching | 8/6/1999 | See Source »

...EXAMPLES] Ally McBeal's Renee (Lisa Nicole Carson) V.I.P.'s Maxine (Angelle Brooks) Clueless's Dionne (Stacey Dash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stereotype Watch | 7/26/1999 | See Source »

...only problem I ran into came from clueless photo finishers. My local photo store claimed it sold Picture CD, but it turned out I was being offered another Kodak service, called Photo CD--a photos-to-disc process geared toward professionals that has been around for seven years, costs more than twice as much and requires users to have their own image-editing software. Another issue: Mac users will have to wait until summer's end for Picture CD. It may be worth it. I found that Picture CD gave me as much technology as I needed. The only thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Photo Finishes | 7/5/1999 | See Source »

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