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...products, attack the image-consciousness and blatant consumerism of today's post-teens. There is "SlimeWarrior...the shampoo of conquerors with patented ten-minute algaeplasma slime formula." And there's "HairHenge, containing folliclemaintenance secrets devised by the ancient druids." Not to mention "Monk-on-Fire, containing placenta, nectarine-pit extract, and B vitamins...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, | Title: Lots of Luster, Not Much Body | 8/7/1992 | See Source »

...There's a lot of mythology about that. I thinkyou have to be careful to extract myth fromreality," Nye says. "Just the word 'Harvard ispart of the myth-making...

Author: By Brian D. Ellison, | Title: HARVARD & PRESIDENTIAL POLITICS | 6/4/1992 | See Source »

...EXTRACT a commitment of $3 billion to $6 billion in new funding from developed countries to help pay for the environmental agenda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Summit to Save the Earth: The Negotiations Scoreboard | 6/1/1992 | See Source »

...such questions. For one thing, incorporating raw reality tends to bend a novel out of artistic shape. Drabble's principal narrator, who sometimes seems omniscient and at other times just as confused as the characters in the story, wonders at one point whether it is even justifiable to extract a novel from the chaos of modern life. "A queasiness, a moral scruple overcomes the writer at the prospect of selecting individuals from the mass of history, from the human soup. Why this one, why not another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bent Out Of Shape | 5/18/1992 | See Source »

...fraudulent to extract sympathy from the reader by juxtaposing a photograph of two people comforting each other while standing on the Names Project AIDS quilt with a slam against the animal rights movement, as does an advertisement that appeared in your March 31 issue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ad Was Fraudulent | 4/25/1992 | See Source »

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