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Word: justness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even a hard-core pessimist must agree that things are looking up when the most immediate worry at the end of the 20th century is that computers won't know what time it is just after midnight, Dec. 31. Or that the threat of a genuine apocalypse has been downgraded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Plague of the Century | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

In two solo albums of exceptionally beautiful tunes and casually caustic commentary on the pitfalls of romantic relationships, Mann, 39, has remained a cult-size pleasure. Timing has been her enemy. Whatever, her fine 1993 solo debut, came out just as her label, Imago Records, hit the financial skids. Her...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Sweet Sound of Magnolia | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

U.S. consumers have a rapacious appetite for products, especially imported ones. Children have an addiction to Pokemon, just as their parents have an insatiable appetite for foreign-made luxury cars. With such examples, how can our kids be expected to curb their wants? NICHOLAS J. GRECO Rockville, Md.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 13, 1999 | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

Looks as if Pokemon fever doesn't stop at any one place. In Korea a company that produces pastry snacks made a new product that includes character stickers from the Pokemon series. Kids here are very interested in collecting all 151 stickers--actually, obsessed is the word for it. I...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 13, 1999 | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

Actress and comic Janeane Garofalo describes David Lindsay-Abaire's work as "cleverly odd." That seems an understatement for his hit off-Broadway farce, Fuddy Meers. Its characters include a housewife whose memory is erased nightly, her jibberish-speaking mother ("fun-house mirrors" becomes in her mouth "fuddy meers"), and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: David Lindsay-Abaire | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

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