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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Never needs batteries, easy to clean up, reusable, a delight for young and old: Is there anything more felicitous than a great children's book? Short on text, long on invention, the best children's books follow the Green Eggs and Ham rule: Serve up a dish made of anything imaginable as long as it's delicious. Merely edible will not do. The books below, our picks as the best of 1998, are perfect for the human small enough to condescend to sit on your lap and big enough to grasp that every single thing written in these books could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Children's Books: A Readable Feast | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

That was in August 1992. Seventeen months later, in January 1994, Seaboard announced that it would shutter its hog-slaughtering operations and lay off upwards of 600 employees. The company said it would keep about 300 workers to process and produce ready-to-buy meats like bacon, sausage and ham. (The number of employees eventually dropped to about 200, and Seaboard sold the business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporate Welfare: The Empire Of The Pigs | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

...AMATO] Spokesman. "Al's known for being something of a ham--we'd get him an endorsement deal with Boar's Head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Nov. 23, 1998 | 11/23/1998 | See Source »

...vehemence, locked up as a system, appealed to Pollock as a container for his own emotional flailing. Though some painters show early signs of genius, or at least of facility, Pollock showed none. After you've seen his early drawings in this show, it seems barely credible that so ham-fisted a young draftsman could have become such an exponent of visual grace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Dappled Glories | 11/9/1998 | See Source »

Though the exact location of porcine pulse points remains elusive, MISS PIGGY, the megalomaniacal muppet with a fetish for frogs, next month launches her own scent, Moi, a perfume that smells as sweet as honey-baked ham. Asked why anyone would want to wear something that smells good to a pig, Miss Piggy, or, more precisely, the people who speak for her, insist that "elegance and sex appeal transcend species...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 2, 1998 | 11/2/1998 | See Source »

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