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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Laptop Superstore also has a "bargain basement" in the same location-a good place to look if you want an inexpensive used or discontinued portable computer to compliment your desktop...

Author: By Baratunde R. Thurston, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Advice for Cambridge Computer Shoppers | 9/10/1997 | See Source »

Laptop Superstore also has a "bargain basement" in the same location-a good place to look if you want an inexpensive used or discontinued portable computer to compliment your desktop...

Author: By Baratunde R. Thurston, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Advice for Cambridge Computer Shoppers | 9/8/1997 | See Source »

...could pay him the usual backhand compliment directed at an enduring Hollywood icon and say that he played--brilliantly played--Jimmy Stewart. But that ignores the pioneering vocal eccentricity, the stammer that miraculously made every line seem as if it had just occurred to him; he was Method before Method was cool. And to say Stewart played himself hardly does justice to the near Shakespearean breadth of his characters and performances. The mannerisms evolved; the man grew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A WONDERFUL FELLA: JAMES STEWART, 1908-1997 | 7/14/1997 | See Source »

...attention, folks, because there's going to be a quiz later. Here's how to give a woman a compliment: you tell her she looks nice. Or better yet, you say, "You look so nice." Or, "You really look so nice." Or, "You look very, very nice." Got it? But did you need a book to tell you how to mix those adverbs and adjectives so very creatively...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TOWER OF PSYCHOBABBLE | 6/16/1997 | See Source »

Unfortunately, on their sophomore CD, The Colour and the Shape (Roswell/ Capitol), Foo Fighters never breaks out of the label "promising," which starts to sound more like a burden than a compliment the second time around. The songs on the new album dwell mainly on how relationships fall apart, a subject that's been dealt with in pop songs ever since pop songs began, and Foo Fighters fails to contribute any new insights. On one song, Up in Arms, Grohl actually sings, "I cannot forget you, girl." It's hard to believe he can offer up a toothless lyric like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: NOT NIRVANA | 6/9/1997 | See Source »

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