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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Kennaugh and Amadio] are not some blue collar people that have copies of Van Gogh on their wall like a motel,” he said...

Author: By ZOE A. Y. WEINBERG, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: New Potential Suspect In Art Theft Investigation | 10/15/2009 | See Source »

...film's solid three-act structure, Act 1 gets good mileage from the bitter-truth premise. In this world, a retirement home is called "A Sad Place for Hopeless Old People"; a motel is "A Cheap Place to Have Intercourse with a Near Stranger." There's even truth in advertising, as indicated by the slogans for Coke ("It's very famous") and Pepsi ("When they don't have Coke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pants on Fire! The Inspired Invention of Lying | 10/12/2009 | See Source »

Global warming is less dire than some scientists predict, and people have less of an effect on it than they think. Must we eat without trays to avoid impeding doom? No. Motel 6 can still leave the lights on for you. And you can take that extra napkin...

Author: By Brian J. Bolduc | Title: Drop the Napkins, Punk! | 10/6/2009 | See Source »

...coffee is a surefire indicator that the circumstances of my life have gone badly wrong. It is the taste of a grimy breakroom at a dead-end job. The grudging cup offered by a non-coffee-drinker during an unhappy visit. The weekend I spent in a dingy Iowa motel when my car broke down the first day I arrived in town for a newspaper internship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Via Taste Test: Grading Starbucks' New Instant Coffee | 10/2/2009 | See Source »

...prefer a darker roast. (Both types of Via tasted better when the water had a minute to cool.) I wouldn't replace my home-brewed with it, but if my sister-in-law served it to me, it would not strain family relations; it might have made a suspect motel in Davenport, Iowa, slightly less depressing. I'm finishing the Colombian as I type this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Via Taste Test: Grading Starbucks' New Instant Coffee | 10/2/2009 | See Source »

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