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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...addition, the Erotic Excerpts section reviews sexually oriented movies and films and hosts some daily features like the Photo, Quote and [Sexual] Position of the Day (past examples: the Alpine Downhill and the Fire Hydrant) to fill out the site's content. Keep an eye out for Moby Dick's timeless whale-penis passage excerpt...

Author: By Benjamin D. Mathis-lilley, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Touching a Nerve.com | 10/28/1999 | See Source »

...content and gay characters--increasingly common accessories on shows aimed at trendy young adults--serve as a sort of coolness shorthand, bestowing hipness on their shows and audience, serving as a conduit to cred for the majority group, just as racial minorities have in the past. From Norman Mailer's White Negro we've gone to the Gay Hetero. As a side benefit, these characters allow networks to put affluent white boys on the air and call it diversity. (Indeed, the elderly animated pair Wally and Gus on the WB's Mission Hill are notable not so much for making...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: TV's Coming-Out Party | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

...plan takes care of one part of the equation, it sidesteps making the unpopular choices - like means-testing - that would truly make Social Security a viable program. "We will not let [the President] raid the Social Security trust fund," Republican J. C. Watts said Saturday, but both sides seem content to do just the opposite: raid the rest of the Treasury to prop up Social Security. Unfortunately, both are just accounting tricks. To paraphrase LBJ, "Son, it's all our money." Which is probably why it's difficult to spend it wisely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton Fires First on Social Security | 10/24/1999 | See Source »

...over coffee or lunch where you can really get inside somebody's head. Perhaps that was too much to ask from the makers of Being John Malkovich, after the film has already taken you quite literally into the head of Mr. Malkovich himself. Instead, I had to content myself with a frenzied conversation with all the luminaries involved with the film on the top floor of a New York high-rise hotel. Sometimes it was hard to tell them all apart; everyone who worked on the movie seemed to wear many proverbial hats. Plainspoken wunderkind director Spike Jonze is basking...

Author: By Jared S. White, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Talking Head | 10/22/1999 | See Source »

...Bilingual Program has three main components: English as Second Language (ESL), which is taken for at least two periods a day, content area courses (mathematics, science, and social studies) taught in ESL and content courses taught in the native language. But even in these native language courses, adds Elsie Vega, a teacher supervising the bilingual program, "I forget Spanish around January...

Author: By Micaela K. Root and Anna M. Schneider-mayerson, S | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Lost and Found in Translation: The Bilingual Problem | 10/21/1999 | See Source »

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