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...those who need to spark some action ina relationship, WordsWorth Gifts is selling "Lust:A Box of Devious Delights." For $15 you too cangive your love goodies like tattoos, fireballcandies, smokecrackers and passion gum. "Everybodygets such a crack out of it," says Wordsworthemployee Liz Robbins...

Author: By Kevin E. Meyers, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Shopping the Square for Your Valentine | 2/12/1999 | See Source »

Still, these are fat times for bubble gum and its makers. Backstreet Boys, a quintet of clean--but not too clean--cut guys with great dimples and abs, was nominated for a Grammy as Best New Artist this year and has so far grossed more than $900 million in record, video and merchandise sales. Last year the group's eponymous debut album was the nation's third best-selling record, followed closely by its chief rival 'N Sync, another quintet of clean--but not too clean--cut guys with great dimples and abs whose eponymous debut was the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Big Poppa's Bubble Gum Machine | 2/1/1999 | See Source »

...cousins). All told, Pearlman pumped $1 million into the group and $2 million more into an entertainment-company infrastructure to support its members before they signed with Jive Records. At the time, alternative rock was still big, the New Kids were played out, and industry wisdom was that bubble gum was over. But all things must return as well as pass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Big Poppa's Bubble Gum Machine | 2/1/1999 | See Source »

...harmonizing of Boyz II Men. The hits are catchy, even compelling, but it's hard, once a girl has grown breasts, to make it through a whole album's worth; then again, to be fair, the same was true of the Jackson Five, the greatest bubble-gum group in history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Big Poppa's Bubble Gum Machine | 2/1/1999 | See Source »

...Senator John McCain perked up enormously when a page delivered a phone message. What fun, a hall pass! It would be a cheap shot, looking down from the press gallery, to comment on hair. But on a per capita basis, the Senate must contain the largest number of adult gum chewers in the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Boredom of Proof | 1/25/1999 | See Source »

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