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...wish I could say Joel Stein had a happier experience handling Will Cybersex Be Better Than Real Sex?, but at least he got to talk with a woman who starred in Porn-0-Matic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Visions 21: Technology and You | 6/19/2000 | See Source »

Wicked Pictures, a major adult-entertainment company, set me up on a cyberdate with one of its actresses, Alexa Rae, star of Porn-o-matic 2000 and Say Aaah. I had never seen Alexa's work, but I was assured she was a complete professional. SafeSexPlus.com sent both of us toys, and we made an e-date...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Cybersex Be Better Than Real Sex? | 6/19/2000 | See Source »

...declaring, "No one shall be allowed to beat you." Milosevic was moved less by Serb nationalism than by its power to electrify. "After that night," recounted a Serb journalist, "there was a psychological change in him. All at once he discovered he had this power over people." Says Veran Matic, director of the independent Radio B-92, which was a target in Milosevic's crackdown last week: "He understands perfectly the mentality of the people, what political culture demands here, what rhetoric sells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ethnic Cleanser | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

...able to talk about it because they assumed that it could not be this bad anywhere else." Dilbert began to chronicle downsizing, hotelling (when a company has fewer cubicles than employees, and every morning is a game of musical chairs) and similar horrors. One strip introduced the Can-o-Matic, "a rest-room stall that randomly fires people by slapping a pink slip on their backs and catapulting them out of the building." In another, Dilbert's boss uses humor as a management tool. "Knock, knock," he says. "Who's there?" asks a worker. "Not you anymore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LAYOFFS FOR LAUGHS | 3/18/1996 | See Source »

...Indianola so the folks watching the news can see him talking to Iowa farmers (two-thirds of whom were college students bused in from Ohio to give the event a shot of adrenaline). It has all the authenticity of an infomercial audience whooping it up for the Veg-O-Matic at two o'clock in the morning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOB SCENE | 3/4/1996 | See Source »

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