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...ging]" as a pathetic, deflated masochist. Far from the weightless retro nugget it resembled, "Lovefool" used its radiant hooks to the most perverse of aims, like a tootsie roll pop with an acid core. Not bad for a band too often pigeonholed as mild candy for the "Easy Listening" dustbin...

Author: By Jared S. White, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cardigan's Latest Album is Swede and Low | 11/6/1998 | See Source »

...friend and schoolmate Clarence Anthony Jasper II. Though midway through college before the learning disability was discovered, Ennis enrolled in a short program that quickly prepared him to deal with his dyslexia and to fully master reading. That relegated his father's old joke about him to the dustbin. ("How can you fail English?" "Yeah," he replied.) He became an informal consultant on his father's show, making a couple of rare visits to the studio to talk about dyslexia--Theo Huxtable was also graduating from college after overcoming that disability. In a paper he would write, cited on Larry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'HE WAS MY HERO' | 1/27/1997 | See Source »

Everybody has recognized that before, of course, and turned out to be wrong. Ultimately, it's up to the Net's notoriously finicky denizens either to embrace these latest software gambits or to banish them to the dustbin of digital history. Let the games begin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FUN AND GAMES IN CYBERSPACE | 10/14/1996 | See Source »

...this reason: most decades have the good grace to die of their own accord, a natural and seemly death. The old decade goes into the dustbin precisely because in looking back, we see its follies and feel a healthy eagerness to get on with something better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURN ON, TUNE IN, TRASH IT! | 5/6/1996 | See Source »

...second, third, fourth and fifth. One gag that holds up is the Great Concavity. This is a chunk of New England turned over to Canada and used as a dump site by the U.S. The method of garbage disposal suggests that environmentalism has ended up in the dustbin of history: monster catapults situated near Boston hurl their toxic loads northward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MAD MAXIMALISM | 2/19/1996 | See Source »

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