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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...blew into Washington, D.C. to give the President his annual tribute of Al Roker's weight in gold--and basically to yak about global warming, which, as Al said, "we don't like." They should have all watched Soylent Green (1973): Chuck Heston in a classic 'open your eyes, dammit!' film with a conscience, in which pollution, overpopulation, and the greenhouse effect have conspired to cram 40 million people into New York, where it is 95 degrees year-round. A very sweaty movie, and family viewing only if your kids won't recycle. But Chuck is an institution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When It Was a Couch Potato | 10/3/1997 | See Source »

...Wallace Langham)--to bring sense and sarcasm to Ronnie's hectic, arid life. A genial dynamo running her undies empire, for which she was the original cover-girl model, she has a slightly spreading figure and a philandering husband (Christopher McDonald) who is, dammit, the man she loves. This week's debut episode, with Ronnie and her husband attempting a reunion, carries weird echoes of the Princess Diana tragedy: famous couple, paparazzi at a restaurant, even a drunken chauffeur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: JOY FROM A WELL-STOCKED CLOSET | 9/29/1997 | See Source »

...questions like, 'Do you think E.O. Wilson doesn't like teaching about aging because, you know, he's not exactly a spring chicken? Do you think he feels bad?' are relevant to anything? What are you thinking? Why don't you shut you friggin' mouth and take some notes, dammit. Good night...

Author: By Keith S. Greenawalt, | Title: Welcome to the Jungle | 5/19/1997 | See Source »

...bear breaks the chain, pulls off White Sut's head, and leaves it in the middle of the main road. This is widely regarded as a good joke. So is a courtroom altercation (12 dead, including the judge) in which Zeke tries earnestly to kill another lowbrow Beck. "Why dammit, I thought I had Davie choked all the way dead," he says, amazed to see a man he had just spent 10 minutes strangling rise up and wander down the street. "Usually when a man's eyes roll back like that, he's thoroughly kilt.'" It may be quibbling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: WILD WARRIORS | 2/10/1997 | See Source »

...like you're straining for something you can't force, so you never know when it's going to happen. It can be really tough sometimes, when you're like"--and for the first time in the interview, the accent that Natchez adopts is forceful, but his own--"'Dammit, this is the same shit I've been playing for two years. Why can't I learn something new? Why can't I get better? I think I could...

Author: By Kathryn R. Markham, | Title: SKAVOOVIE! | 2/3/1996 | See Source »

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