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...jargon fiend: deconstructionism, New Criticism, revisionism, structuralism, post-modernism, existentialism, your-mamaism: the jargon fiend knows them...

Author: By Aparna Sridhar, | Title: Beware Section Freaks And Geeks | 2/19/1999 | See Source »

...Beastie Boys hollering, "You gotta fight for your right--to party!" and Public Enemy saying, "Don't believe the hype," and Hammer's harem-style balloon pants. Then gangsta rap: N.W.A. rapping "F____ tha police"; Snoop drawling "187 on an undercover cop"; and Tupac crying, "Even as a crack fiend, mama/ You always was a black queen, mama." Then Mary J. Blige singing hip-hop soul; Guru and Digable Planets mixing rap with bebop; the Fugees "Killing me softly with his song"; Puffy mourning Biggie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Hip-Hop Nation | 2/8/1999 | See Source »

...even in a p.c. PC world, is it that surprising that women find chat addictive? Still, one might expect than only kids would have 55 hours a week to spend online -- the average dose for self-described addicts -- but researchers were surprised to discover that the typical Net fiend was closer to 30. They also tended to be depressed and introverted -- hardly surprising when your main companion is named Dell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jane's Addiction? The Internet | 12/15/1998 | See Source »

...argues Sorrentino, also a friend of the Material Girl. She stresses that Madonna, a former dancer and perennial workout fiend known to exercise for up to four hours a day, combines Pilates with jogging, cardiovascular exercise and weight training. Post-baby Pilates mainly helps to bring back those famous abs so prominent on the Blonde Ambition Tour...

Author: By Alicia A. Carrasquillo, | Title: Pontius Pilates | 10/22/1998 | See Source »

...castle. Maybe as some kind of compensatory gesture, the movies have also lately given us the President as cartoonish action hero: Harrison Ford in Air Force One, Bill Pullman in Independence Day--the Commander in Chief as somebody who can do a nice head butt. Musclehead or sex fiend--that's not much of a choice. Before long the only guys suitable for the part will be Jackie Chan and Larry Flynt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: All The Presidents' Movies | 3/16/1998 | See Source »

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