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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hardships of childhood--the difficulty of communicating with her parents, the cruelty of other children--all fed her belief that she was unwanted, her sense of being alien and unreal. She began abusing drugs and alcohol as an adolescent, but by freshman year discovered a better release. Using a knife or a razor, she would methodically slice open her arms. "A main part of it was to know I was real," she says. "With the blood flowing down my arms, I was real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What the Cutters Feel | 11/9/1998 | See Source »

...good time to be in the market for computer-based video-editing gear; you can find plenty of devices for under $300. I tried the Matrox Marvel G200-TV ($299), and I highly recommend it for the home videomaker. It's a Swiss Army Knife kind of thing, with a video and graphics accelerator (which makes everything from spreadsheets to games look better on your monitor), 2-D and 3-D accelerator, and even a TV tuner (you can watch television on your PC if you attach your cable). Best of all, it has a chip that quickly compresses video...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Home Hollywood | 11/9/1998 | See Source »

Perhaps it is writ deep into the psyche of our native land, but Americans are unaccustomed to gastronomic rules. Proper etiquette is dictated by the all-powerful edicts of Miss Manners: the ubiquitous "no elbows on the table," the less common, unwieldy knife switch-over between cutting and chewing and the taboo against soup-slurping. But etiquette in American dining is about propriety and little more. According to the owner and chef of Cafe Japonaise, things are different in Japan. Sushi neophytes need more than a willingness to embrace the strangeness of raw fish. Eating sushi is a matter...

Author: By Rebecca U. Weiner, | Title: Kama Sushi | 11/5/1998 | See Source »

...criticisms go, Nashville Pussy is not the place to look for nuance or subtlety. I guess I first realized this when I noticed that the disc of Eat More Pussy is decorated with a knife and fork. Variety isn't a strong point, either; all the songs sound basically the same. Often, the only way I could tell that one song had ended and another had begun was the brief period of feedback which opens nearly every song, a habit I found to be too juvenile and hackneyed for the level of music they were performing...

Author: By Myung! H. Joh, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: They Came from the Grand 'Ole Opry | 10/30/1998 | See Source »

...Arlington resident reports that at 8:30 p.m., while attempting to buy marijuana, a white female pulled a knife on him and demanded his money ($17) and his backpack containing clothes and audio tapes...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Gudrais, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: CAMBRIDGE POLICE BLOTTER | 10/28/1998 | See Source »

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