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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Susan Vance singing to a leopard. And incredible Tracy Lord -- lighted from above, in a George Cukor close-up, dressed by Adrian, and kissed by Jimmy Stewart in the moonlight. For lovers of film, it's very hard for the artist who made these women to lay an egg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: First Person Singular | 9/23/1991 | See Source »

Milbury said the Bruins made the bid because the team was fearful some of the other teams would hire Stevens and he did not want the team to end up with "egg on our face...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Bruins to Steal Stevens? | 9/20/1991 | See Source »

Then there are the animal-rights zealots, who sometimes seem to have greater respect for fauna than for their fellow humans. In some bastions of correct thinking, a woman wearing an ermine coat stands more chance of being attacked by an egg-throwing lover of stoats than by a mugger. (The fur-wearing woman's offense would be compounded if she were eating a veal sandwich or carrying a non-biodegradable Styrofoam container of coffee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Accusations Busybodies: New Puritans Repent! | 8/12/1991 | See Source »

...packages are more distinctive than the cardboard-wrapped plastic egg that has carried L'eggs panty hose for more than two decades. The catchy container and wide availability at drugstores and supermarkets helped make the super- stretchy, reasonably priced product the world's best-selling hosiery. But L'eggs, a division of Sara Lee, has decided to dump its plastic egg and switch to an all-cardboard package. One reason for the change is to reduce waste. While the L'eggs plastic egg is recyclable and is often used by customers for arts-and-crafts projects, the new box uses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Packaging: A Good Egg Gets Better | 7/22/1991 | See Source »

...film will go flabby. Audiences will quickly turn to cuddlier movie diversions. The action-adventure genre, which has worldwide appeal but whose budgets have been ballooning until they are ready to burst, will finally be terminated. And Carolco, T2's producer, will be left with a $100 million egg on its face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Half A Terrific Terminator | 7/8/1991 | See Source »

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