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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Johann Gutenberg was born of well-to-do parents in the Archbishopric of Mainz, Germany. Details of his life, early as well as late, are sketchy, but he apparently trained as a goldsmith and/or gem cutter and then became a partner in a printing shop in Strasbourg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 15th Century: Johann Gutenberg (c. 1395-1468) | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...unsympathetic bosses. The song titles alone are enough to fill a therapist's appointment book: "My Baby Don't Love Me" by John Lee Hooker, "Please Send Me Someone to Love" by Luther Allison, "Born Under a Bad Sign" by Albert King. Whatever problems I faced in the cookie-cutter world of middle class New Jersey seemed to pale in comparison to the stuff of "the blues...

Author: By David Kornhaber, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Genrecide | 12/3/1999 | See Source »

...turkeys arrive at Savenor's in wooden crates packed with ice, according to Clint J. Moreau, a meat-cutter who has worked at Savenor's for five years...

Author: By Eugenia V. Levenson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Turkey Day Brings Business to Savenor's | 11/24/1999 | See Source »

...bored with the Gap(tm)-bland banality of his successful life he is forced to pretend that his affliction is something completely different. Hence his addiction to group therapy sessions, where he can pretend that his unhappiness springs from testicular cancer or OCD rather than from the cookie-cutter pointlessness of his life. Carolyn Burnham (Annette Bening) in American Beauty faces the same dilemma: she's wealthy, she has a nice little nuclear family, she likes martinis...of course she should be happy. Just as the narrator in Fight Club spends the entire movie running from his problems (an escapism...

Author: By Ankur N. Ghosh, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: hush, yuppies: would you like some whine with your cheese? | 10/15/1999 | See Source »

...bored with the Gap(tm)-bland banality of his successful life he is forced to pretend that his affliction is something completely different. Hence his addiction to group therapy sessions, where he can pretend that his unhappiness springs from testicular cancer or OCD rather than from the cookie-cutter pointlessness of his life. Carolyn Burnham (Annette Bening) in American Beauty faces the same dilemma: she's wealthy, she has a nice little nuclear family, she likes martinis...of course she should be happy. Just as the narrator in Fight Club spends the entire movie running from his problems (an escapism...

Author: By Ankur N. Ghosh, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Undoing Yuppiedom | 10/15/1999 | See Source »

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