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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...float around for a relaxing ride onBoston's famous Swan Boats which inhabit thelandscaped ponds of the French-inspired PublicGarden next to the Englishstyle Common...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boston Is Old, So You Should Play Tourist | 6/24/1995 | See Source »

...Finn in the first place, which is a not very bright idea thought up by some blurb writer at the publishing house and maybe some reviewers who weren't into original thought, and second, it was a lot easier to be an American archetype back when Huck and Jim floated down the Mississippi because they had a whole big river, which is a ready-made metaphor right there, and all I had was this crummy shopping mall in upstate New York. You can sort of float in a mall, but not too far, just around in the same old circle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: FLOAT TRIP | 6/5/1995 | See Source »

...advance press for the new book by Russell Banks (HarperCollins; 390 pages; $22) tries hard to pass the novel off as the story of a Huck Finn-esque mall rat in upstate New York. Unfortunately, it was a lot easier to be an American archetype when Huck and Jim floated down the Mississippi, a ready-made metaphor. It's a much more difficult, and much less interesting, trick for Bone, the 14 year old narrator of this book, who's stuck not with a river but a mere shopping mall, a place whereTIME book critic John Skowsays "you can sort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS . . . "RULE OF THE BONE" | 5/26/1995 | See Source »

...Richard Schoenstadt, 44, a surveyor's assistant who bought 54 riverfront acres, intending to subdivide. The apa insisted on an exhaustive biological inventory. Then, says Schoenstadt, who between fighting and complying lost the property and his $50,000 savings, the agency wanted assurance that his picnic tables would not float away during floods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EARTH DAY BLUES | 4/24/1995 | See Source »

...time. I've been soaking in it for two hours with ``Bubbles,'' ``Hard Charger'' and ``Lush Lady.'' Charger and Lady are, shall we say, flirting heavily, while Bubbles is trying to get my attention. But s/he's a notorious transvestite, so I'm keeping my distance. People float in and out of this hot tub, which is open to all comers, but no one ever gets wet -- just a little damp sometimes. If you fancy someone, and he or she fancies you, it is possible to go private and exchange sexual fantasies until you're too exhausted, or bored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TWILIGHT ZONE OF THE ID | 3/1/1995 | See Source »

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