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Word: junks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Decades ago, Alfred Hitchcock said actors were cattle. Today celebrities are meat: junk food for tabloid headlines, canapes for cocktail-party surmise, fodder for Leno and Letterman raillery. Are the charges, whispers and gags true? Hardly matters; they need only be entertaining. Star tattle proceeds from two American impulses: cynicism and sentimentality. Sentimentally we imagine that a popular artist must have hidden depths. Cynically we suspect that every star must have a guilty secret; all that power, money and spare time allow them to act out any sick whim. Gossip has become the purest form of show biz, a story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tom Terrific | 12/21/1998 | See Source »

...they're right. I bought my first Millennia two years ago and a second this year, ordering through the micronpc.com website. It's the king of PCs. The machine is solid--no tinny clicks and clatters when it does its microprocessing--and it never fails, no matter how much junk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Her Way and Mine | 12/21/1998 | See Source »

...mailings were located to the right of the mailboxes, in a row of cubbies that normally house junk mail. Superintendent of Lowell House Jay W. Coveney said it is standard procedure for mass mailings without names to be placed in the cubbies...

Author: By Vicky C. Hallett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Alum Promotes Christianity, Sexual Purity in Mailing to Lowell House | 12/15/1998 | See Source »

...bookmarking and history. Both browsers work equally well in Windows, by the way. And both include free mail programs: Netscape comes with Messenger and Microsoft gives away Outlook Express, which has been upgraded. Again, I prefer Microsoft's offering: Outlook looks snappier and offers a great way to handle junk mail. Microsoft's beta, however, is no Ally McBeal: it takes up 15.4 megabytes just for the browser; 49 megs if you install the mailer and other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Just Browsing? | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

When the 1980s and '90s turned into the age of personal investment--courtesy of the 401(k)--as well as celebrity capitalism--courtesy of Michael Milken's junk bonds and the bull market--MONEY was joined by a passel of rivals, including SmartMoney, Worth and Mutual Funds, each of which made the eternal promise of investment journalism--pssst, you can beat the market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Words To Profit By | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

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