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...those unwilling to spend over $2 on dinner, Star Market's brand offers substantial savings. For example, a Banquet Value Meal costs a mere $1.69. And for the kid in you, Kid Cuisine dinners are $1.99 and offer enticing choices like "Cosmic Chicken Sticks," "Pirate Pizza with Cheese" and "Frenzied Fish Sticks." The critics agree: the Kid Cuisine desserts are delish...

Author: By Emily N. Tabak, | Title: The Classic T.V. Dinner | 2/26/1998 | See Source »

...third suggestion, the Overpowering Assumption, I think, is best. But not for the reasons he suggests--that the assumption is so cosmic that it might be accepted. It is rarely "accepted;" we aren't here to accept or reject--we're here to be amused. The more dazzling, personal, unorthodox, paradoxic your assumptions (paradoxes are not equivocations), the more interesting an essay is likely to be. (If you have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course--and we all like to be called "assistants," not "graders"--you may be able to ferret...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Grader's Reply | 1/12/1998 | See Source »

There is a third method of dealing with examination questions--that is by the use of the overpowering assumption, an assumption so cosmic that it is sometimes accepted. For example, we wrote that it was pretty obvious that the vague generality was the key device in any discussion of examination writing. Why is it obvious? As a matter of fact it wasn't obvious at all, but just an arbitrary point from which to start. That is an example of an unwarranted assumption...

Author: By Donald Carswell, THIS PIECE FIRST RAN ON JUNE 14, 1950. | Title: Beating the System | 1/12/1998 | See Source »

...Space A psychiatrist's comfortable world is shaken when he encounters several patients with similar tales of alien visitation. Writer-director Tina Landau's wondrous production for Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre is a magical mystery tour, packed with inventive sound and lighting effects, that explores cosmic questions of mankind's place in the universe while staying grounded in the spiritual quest of one vulnerable man, played marvelously by Tom Irwin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BEST THEATER OF 1997 | 12/29/1997 | See Source »

Reality bites. Where was the cosmic fairness in this year's murder of Bill Cosby's son Ennis, a beloved young teacher? Did the June settlement by the states with the cigarette companies hit the bastards hard enough? What was happening in the never ending investigation of the crash of TWA Flight 800? Where is the justice for the killer(s) of JonBenet Ramsey, whose case seems to stew forever? Where is the justice for Pol Pot, the most odious mass murderer since Hitler and Stalin, who was brought into public view on videotape in a Khmer Rouge show trial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE YEAR EMOTIONS RULED | 12/22/1997 | See Source »

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