Word: popular
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...following pages, TIME offers five regional vacation itineraries inspired by a variety of books that are popular with readers ranging from tots to teenagers. Our choices reflect not only the need to meet different levels of reader sophistication but also a recognition that vacations should...
...that stealing music and video games has become routine, pirates are closing in on a new target: feature films. Some 200 websites offer illegal copies of popular movies such as Saving Private Ryan and Shakespeare in Love, according to the Motion Picture Association of America. The images are often blurred and jerky. And downloading them onto your computer is a federal felony. But violators are hard to catch and the films are free, so they're finding an audience. "Online movie piracy is a cancer in the belly of our business," frets M.P.A.A. president Jack Valenti...
...culture, we venerate symmetrical faces, women with perky breasts, men with V-shaped torsos. But is it the fault of Vogue editors and Aaron Spelling that we do so? Skewering the popular wisdom that beauty is a social construct, this Harvard psychologist argues that we ogle such features because they radiate the health and fertility our species needs to survive. Avoiding ideological rant, Etcoff employs rigorous scientific research and amusing detail to create a great read, albeit one that won't become Naomi Wolf's favorite...
LEAVE YOUR JOYSTICK AT HOME Any of the 5 million people who own Wing Commander, the perennially popular space-wars game for the PC, could imagine that its developer, Chris Roberts, had big aspirations. After all, this is the guy who created an elaborate futuristic world where humans battle the evil Kilrathi race across the galaxy. At last Roberts' cyberfantasies get the colossal scale they deserve in the movie version of his game, opening Friday. Expect dazzling effects in this, the first PC game adapted for film...
Once archrivals intent on gunning each other down, the two new allies have something important to gain from their new friendship. For Gephardt, the prize is to become Speaker of the House. "Gephardt believes he has a real shot at the post, given the popular disenchantment with the Republican performance on impeachment," says Dickerson. "The endorsement allows him to leverage his ambitions off Gore's momentum." For Gore, the impetus is the ability to focus more on his electability -- a proposition that looks more problematic at the moment than winning the Democratic nomination. For despite the current Republican disarray over...