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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Senate. The novel's action takes place on what we assume to be the Senator's deathbed in the form of remembered riffs of sermons, folktales, signifying and the dozens, in an often dazzling extended call-and-response pattern suggestive of two dueling horns in an after-hours gig at a jazz club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ralph Ellison: The Last Sublime Riffs Of a Literary Jazzman | 6/28/1999 | See Source »

...Brooklyn gangster. Detroit Rock City, set in 1978, is about four guys trying to bluff their way into a KISS concert. It may remind you of I Wanna Hold Your Hand, made in 1978, about a bunch of kids trying to get into the Beatles' first Ed Sullivan gig in 1964. But then, every summer movie tends to resemble every other summer movie. This year, though, movie heroes are less interested in saving the planet than in losing their virginity. That's the difference between macho melodrama and lowbrow comedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Going Goofy at the Movies | 6/21/1999 | See Source »

...February a producer, apparently taken by the testosterone in my articles, asked if I'd like to try to write for a new series premiering this week on Comedy Central called The Man Show. Three weeks later I was on a plane to L.A. for a week-long writing gig and the chance to create that extra-sleazy me I had long fantasized about. I called him Shane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Show Cometh | 6/21/1999 | See Source »

...there's one crazy thing I've ever written that you should remember, it is to question everyone and challenge everything (except your parents, who made this whole gig possible--thanks...

Author: By Baratunde R. Thurston, | Title: What Was It All About? | 6/9/1999 | See Source »

...days before the Universal announcement, RealNetworks launched its JukeBox. RealNetworks is the biggest name in online audio (and video), bigger even than Microsoft. When it declared that JukeBox would embrace the MP3 format--allowing users to effortlessly encode their CDs in it--it was clear to me the gig was up. And to a lot of other folks too. More than 350,000 people downloaded the JukeBox software in 2 1/2 days, the fastest online "uptake" on record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coinless JukeBox | 5/17/1999 | See Source »

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