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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Famine, disease, wrongful prosecution. The injustices of the world are many, but there may be none more dreaded or debated than a blown call late in a National Football League game. Coaches and players foam; league officials squirm; and frazzled fans dial the personality-disorder hotline called sports talk radio. Pro football, which made violence a Sunday virtue and Vegas the national bank, is the beast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Let's Go to the Tape | 12/21/1998 | See Source »

...things that dump foam or water on you, and they're battery operated. I stole all the batteries and took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: David Cross | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

...costume came together in four hours, welded out of foam core into a two-tiered structure. Total cost...

Author: By William P. Bohlen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Campus Kids Suit up and Head Into Cambridge in Search of Holiday Treats | 10/30/1998 | See Source »

...night in Cincinnati--it don't get no better than this!" Buffett yelps as his 13-piece Coral Reefer Band takes the stage in Mardi Gras costumes and towering headdresses. The crowd at the Riverbend amphitheater roars its agreement: 18,500 otherwise respectable people, many in full tropical regalia--foam parrot hats, grass skirts and coconut-shell bras. And that's just the men. (Let's not even discuss the folks dancing naked on their boats in the Ohio River, right behind the stage.) Buffett's fans, the Parrotheads--so named by a friend of Buffett's at a Cincinnati...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Still Rockin' In Jimmy Buffett's Key West Margaritaville | 8/17/1998 | See Source »

...have the rest of our lives to go to LL Cool J concerts. But when else do students have the opportunity to throw themselves onto a giant wall of Velcro, or smack each other over the head with giant foam boxing gloves? The corraling of legal-aged students into a special cage for beer drinkers may not have been the most aesthetically pleasing solution to the problem of providing alcohol, but turning the event into a "BYOB affair," as the staff suggest, is a recipe for disaster. And the MAC Quad was the perfect location for the festivities. Had they...

Author: By Dara Horn, | Title: Foam Boxing Gloves Rule | 4/27/1998 | See Source »

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