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...ridiculous that it's easier for 16-year-olds to visit prostitutes than it is to get chewing gum." FAYEN WONG, college student in Singapore, where gum is now legal after a 12-year ban, although citizens who want to chew must submit their names and ID cards to the government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim: Jun. 7, 2004 | 6/7/2004 | See Source »

...ridiculous that it's easier for 16-year-olds to visit prostitutes than it is to get chewing gum." FAYEN WONG, college student in Singapore, where gum is now legal after a 12-year ban but citizens who want to chew must submit their names and ID cards to the government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 5/31/2004 | See Source »

...Joey" moves Matt LeBlanc's lunkhead character from New York to L.A., introducing "The Sopranos'" Drea deMatteo as his loud-mouthed, gum-snapping sister. (NBC may not be able to match HBO quality-wise, but it's catching up in the derogatory Italian-American-stereotype business!) On the plus side, the script has the kind of nicely set-up jokes you'd expect on "Friends"; in the first scene, Joey gives a long expository spiel about his reasons for moving to L.A. to the cab driver on his ride from the airport (acting auditions, getting close to family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NBC: Nothin' But Conventional | 5/18/2004 | See Source »

...popular crowd struts down the hall in a cloud of hot pink and sparkles. Led by blonde side-ponytail styled Tom-Tom, constantly sporting bangle bracelets and acid wash denim, the self-titled “Six Chicks” have mastered both the complicated walk-while-chewing-gum combination and the snide remarks to Jenna and her road-less-traveled, slightly pudgy (read: loser) friend Matt. Jenna is, like, so not cool. Her only solace is to wish of a future circumscribed by her favorite magazine…a place and time when life is lived according...

Author: By Lisa M. Puskarcik, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Film Review: 13 Going on 30 | 4/23/2004 | See Source »

...we’ve got a young love reunited. Forget that Matt happens to be engaged to a Chicago weathergirl. All it takes for Jenna to win him over is an innocent ride on a swing set and a pack of Razzles, the popular 80s candy that turns to gum in your mouth...

Author: By Lisa M. Puskarcik, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Film Review: 13 Going on 30 | 4/23/2004 | See Source »

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