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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...STARR] Spokesman. "We'd hook him up with a shoe-polish corporation...to make the hobby cool among American youth...

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

...young editor's head hasn't been entirely turned by this attention from New York City and Hollywood. "I used to think that all we really needed to be a big success was to hook up with somebody in show business who knew what he was doing," he says. "Well, they don't really know what they're doing." Sounds like another hot news item for the Onion: HUMOR EDITOR DISCOVERS VAPIDITY IN HOLLYWOOD...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All the News That's Unfit | 11/16/1998 | See Source »

...Diamond Multimedia's HomeFree Wireless, since I know and use Diamond's excellent graphics card. The $199 DeskTop Pack connects two computers by radio waves; you can add as many as 15 others for $100 each. And for an additional $129, you can buy a HomeFree PCMCIA card and hook in a laptop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Home Hookups | 11/16/1998 | See Source »

...their "rob the rich" scam in which Heinrich Grigoris (Greg Tucci) boosts the sales of his alarms by staging robberies in the neighborhoods of potential clients. The twist in Grigoris' scheme is Tommy, the new salesman played with adorable, bumbling style by David Arquette. A natural at the hook, the Tommy's moral sensibilities are deeply troubled by Grigoris' less-than-honest sales strategy, which he markets to Tommy under the "rob the rich to feed the poor" label. While Grigoris feeds scruple-free off of the paranoid West Los Angeles psyche, Tommy complicates the plot until even Robin Hood...

Author: By Carla A. Blackmar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: THE ALARMIST | 11/13/1998 | See Source »

...room, the other three surfaces are blanketed with angled mirrors arranged to create diamond panels. Flying in the face of the conventional leopard-print, Jackson opts for another pattern of the savannah: zebra stripe, on a pair of boxers--yes, that's right, underwear--hanging on a hook in the corner...

Author: By Debra P. Hunter, | Title: Rooms Built For Love, and Then Some | 11/12/1998 | See Source »

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