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...TAKES A LICKIN' AND KEEPS ON BEEPING...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TECH WATCH: Aug. 11, 1997 | 8/11/1997 | See Source »

...yummy, seductive, good enough to buy, whether the scene is selling sex, violence or some slick sociopathic blend of the two. He pummels your eye with wide-screen close-ups that eroticize violence and give a lurid threat to the sex. The love scene is a French- kissin', torso-lickin' jeans ad set to cinema. In the big shoot-out at the end, bloody cushion feathers smother the screen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Goons Go Gun Crazy | 9/13/1993 | See Source »

Aside from her saves, though, Donahoe has, in every sense of the word, been an "ironwoman" for the Crimson. In fact, it is apt to compare Donahoe to a Timex watch: she takes a lickin' and keeps on tickin...

Author: By Sean D. Wissman, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: ALWAYS IN CONTROL | 10/23/1992 | See Source »

...years of pop music through the bottom of an empty beer bottle. Live at P.J.'s at times evokes a schmaltzy hotel lounge act. Elsewhere, Santana-like Latin percussion and '60s soul grooves join a pastiche of electronically altered vocals and jabbering wah-wah guitars. Songs like Finger Lickin' Good mix live instruments with electronically sampled sounds and fluid tempos -- "switching the rhythm," as the Beasties say, "like another piece of chewing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Punky Funk | 5/18/1992 | See Source »

...PepsiCo, it was a finger- lickin' good deal. The secondlargest U.S. soft- drink manufacturer (1985 sales: $8.1 billion) announced last week that it had agreed to acquire Kentucky Fried Chicken, now owned by RJR Nabisco, for about $850 million. If the deal goes through, the purchase of the 6,500 KFC restaurants will give PepsiCo, which already owns Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, some 14,000 fast-food outlets, more than any other chain. McDonald's, with 9,000 stores, is the current leader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fast Food: Pepsi Bags Kentucky Fried | 8/4/1986 | See Source »

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