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I'm not so thrilled to have to sit through this new stuff, and neither is anyone else. Iggy's new album (Avenue B) is a collaboration with Medeski, Martin and Wood of all people --and they're a terrible combination. Iggy crooning these songs is boring and bad; he...

Author: By Benjamin L. Mckean, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Concert Review: Pop Goes the Rock Star | 11/12/1999 | See Source »

All right, kids: Go call your grandparents and tell them they are wise, witty and wonderful. You may help keep them healthy. According to a study published Monday in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, elderly people who encounter positive images and feedback about aging may actually function better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I'm OK, You're OK. Pass the Tapioca | 11/2/1999 | See Source »

Instead of an epic encounter between fabled foes, we have a contest between the two best teams in baseball. And not merely the two best teams but two paradigms of the modern baseball-world order. The Yankees, with the game's highest payroll, are rich because they're in New...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who's Best? Play Ball | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

Even children do it. Told that a man likes to wug, they will say yesterday he wugged. Children are not sponges; they're constantly creating sentences and words, never more clearly or charmingly than when they encounter the second flavor of verb, the quirky irregulars. The past tense of spring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Horton Heared a Who! | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

Coming out next month will be a major new example of the expanded short story: Sleepy Hollow. Already, director Tim Burton has distanced himself from the classic short story by Washington Irving--Irving's work was titled "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow." The plot is drastically different. In the tale...

Author: By Jason F. Clarke, | Title: CINEMANIC: Story Time--The Trip From Text to Screen | 10/29/1999 | See Source »

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