Word: futons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...decade-old Onion began as an alternative college-town paper and still carries the usual movie reviews and futon advertisements. Editor Scott Dikkers, 33, worked as a cartoonist during the publication's first year (he did three strips in three styles under three names, just so nobody would think the Onion had just one cartoonist), then bought the paper after a year from its founders. "For a long time we were kind of a Weekly World News parody combined with your usual sophomoric college-humor publication," says Dikkers. The moment of epiphany came in 1995, when, as Dikkers now says...
...trip outside of the Square affords mounting savings. The basic nylon bean-bag chair, a staple of dorm decor, sells for $54 at Urban Outfitters, but those willing to stop by Economy Hardware can get an almost identical bag for $14 less. Generally, the larger the item--from futon to area rug--the greater the savings...
...normal," Jerry Yang says with a boyish grin, making a halfhearted effort to straighten up his cubicle for his visitor. It's not much of an office by mogul standards: just a nondescript desk, a couple of cheap plastic milk crates bulging with papers, an old futon. Magazines are piled in a corner, and a window offers a distinctly declasse view of the parking...
...those who can cook treat it almost like a hobby, not a daily task. The rest survive on large quantities of frozen food, spaghetti and Ramen Noodles. Some of them have not even bothered to buy beds, sleeping instead on our decade's great symbol of student life, the futon. Others watch "Ally McBeal" and actually identify with...
...Once I'm done with exams, I'm going to start trying to sell my futon and maybe a lamp," Gluck says. "I'll put up signs and hopefully someone will want them. Otherwise, I might have to just give them away...