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...Napolean was defeated in 1815. A monument on a hill commemorates the men who died in that battle. But those who trek up the steps to the top no longer see the rustic cow pastures where most of the men died. They see the golden arches of McDonalds, the Pizza Hut, the American schools and the Chevy station wagons with Virginia plates in the supermarket parking lots...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: Getting Too Comfy in the Desert | 10/17/1990 | See Source »

...frat-house nuttiness. Recycled in book form, they are just as funny to read. Here again are Jim Bakker's Top 10 Pickup Lines ("Pray here often?"; "Your eyes are the same color as my leisure suit"), Princess Diana's Top 10 Complaints about Prince Charles (always calls Pizza Hut before we've decided on topping we want; that phony British accent), and the Top 10 Least Popular Attractions at Disney World (Oprah Mountain; Peter Pan's All- Male Cinema; Muggyland). For connoisseurs, there's the very first list (Top 10 Words That Almost Rhyme with Peas); for doubters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Oct. 8, 1990 | 10/8/1990 | See Source »

...allow cooking in my house. The smell. The smell of cooking -- when you have drawings, or even writings -- that smell would go all over my work. So I eat things that you don't have to light a fire for. Or else I order a pizza. The speed at which I eat it, it doesn't smell up the place too bad. The smell doesn't last too long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: David Lynch: Czar of Bizarre | 10/1/1990 | See Source »

...opened the cafe to see if a town too small for a regular franchise could support a traditional restaurant. But it has no plans for future golden-oldie branches. The cafe is not the only experiment the Big M has launched in recent months. The company has also introduced pizza, fried chicken and spaghetti at some of its restaurants to bolster sluggish sales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RESTAURANTS: Remembrance Of Things Fast | 9/10/1990 | See Source »

Delivery people at various Domino's pizza outlets in and around Washington claim that they have learned to anticipate big news baking at the White House or the Pentagon by the upsurge in takeout orders. Phones usually start ringing some 72 hours before an official announcement. "We know," says one pizza runner. "Absolutely. Pentagon orders doubled up the night before the Panama attack; same thing happened before the Grenada invasion." Last Wednesday, he adds, "we got a lot of orders, starting around midnight. We figured something was up." This time the big news arrived quickly: Iraq's surprise invasion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And Bomb The Anchovies | 8/13/1990 | See Source »

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