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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unfortunately, my memories of dandruff aren't so great. Besides the botched effort at romance (read on, read on), I keep thinking of those damn Head & Shoulders commercials. You know the ones. "It's about your flakes," the healthy athletic dude says confidentially to his hip pal while pumping iron...

Author: By Joshua W. Shenk, | Title: A Song of Selsun Blues | 10/6/1990 | See Source »

Some people want to know who killed Laura Palmer, the Twin Peaks homecoming queen with a past, the identity of whose murderer has been kept secret nearly as long as that of Jimmy Hoffa. More people, it seems, want to know about David Lynch's eating habits. How many damn fine cups of coffee (lots of milk, gobs of sugar) does he drink each day? Does he share the cherry-pie fixation of his TV hero, Special Agent Cooper? On the Tonight Show, Jay Leno quizzed Lynch about his Guinness Book-worthy consumption of chocolate milk shakes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: David Lynch: Czar of Bizarre | 10/1/1990 | See Source »

...Howard Schloss, speaking for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, insists that incumbency is still a huge asset. "The ballot box is sending one message, and the theorists another." In fact, the results seem to highlight an odd disjuncture in the American political system: Carney is right about the voters' damn-all- politicia ns resentments, but Schloss appears right about probable outcomes this November...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Throw Some of the Bums Out! | 10/1/1990 | See Source »

Other performers might talk a little about the bad times and all the frustrations; Brooks describes a scene that sounds like Jack Nicholson's famous freak-out in Five Easy Pieces. "Sitting in the parking lot of a damn fire station back in Hendersonville, Tenn., beating my head as hard as I could because I had snapped, and Sandy screaming at me to quit. I was crying, she was crying. I calmed down, and we went back home." Half a year later, Brooks signed with Capitol Records...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Country Classicists | 9/24/1990 | See Source »

...these areas be negotiated? "In theory, yes," says a State Department official. "An overall Middle East arms-reduction agreement might be created, but that's the longest of shots. The fact is that if we are serious about going beyond getting Saddam out of Kuwait, and we are damn serious about it, then war is just about inevitable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Political Interest: Waiting for the Pretext | 9/24/1990 | See Source »

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