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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rebuilding a jetty, doing homework for the owner's daughter, playing on the local pub's dart team and running the town's milk route. In this creepy, deadpan novel by a nominee for Britain's Booker Prize, nothing much happens--except that one man slowly, painlessly, surrenders his life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: All Quiet On The Orient Express | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Brief: Oct. 18, 1999 | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

...also has a family beyond the plastic dinosaur, the piggy bank, the Slinky dog and his other amigos back home in Andy's bedroom. Jessie the Yodelin' Cowgirl and Stinky Pete the prospector and a horse named Bullseye--they all want Woody to stay with them. Could life be better for a cloth toy who, in the original film, thought no one wanted him? Now everybody does. Way too much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TS2: Sneak Preview | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

...cynically, a movie sequel is just an attempt to extend the franchise created by a hit. And in this case, a franchise that sold millions of toys. When Buzz says dewily, "Life's only worth livin' if you've been loved by a kid," he is voicing either the sweetest sentiment ever or the canniest slogan for Toys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TS2: Sneak Preview | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

...future of the Census Bureau?s investigation may depend primarily on semantics. "The Census Bureau is asking ?What is poor today??" says TIME senior writer Adam Cohen. "This is a qualitative shift; we live in a different society now than we did during the Johnson administration. Today, a ?normal? life involves a lot more things than ever before," like television, cable and computers. "It?s not like measuring how old you are," Cohen adds. "You could have the exact same amount of money, adjusted for inflation, as you did in 1965, and you may be poor now - even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Funny, Just Yesterday I Was Lower Middle Class | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

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