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...available surface. Some of the ads indirectly acknowledge that TV is a waste of time that could otherwise be spent productively ("Life is short. Watch TV;" "Eight hours a day, that's all we ask"). A variation of this theme pokes fun at those of us who eschew couch-potato culture in favor of other pursuits. ("Hobbies, Schmobbies;" "It's a beautiful day. What are you doing outside?"). One poster even suggests the mind-numbing stupidity of the very programs that the ads are supposed to convince us to watch ("Don't worry. You've got billions of brain cells...

Author: By Erwin R. Rosinberg, | Title: ABC Ads Come Too Close to the Truth | 8/15/1997 | See Source »

Goodbye Tuscan Hummus and hello Potato Skins...

Author: By Andrew K.mandel, | Title: Harvard News In Brief | 8/15/1997 | See Source »

...body piercing. Bill Clinton has raised these I'm-so-sorry sermonettes to an art form. The survivors of the Tuskegee, Ala., syphilis experiments and the victims of 1950s radiation research have all been awarded the presidential seal of sorrow. Tony Blair, an adroit mimic, apologized for the Irish potato famine before he even got around to hearing the latest Di-and-Fergie gossip from the Queen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MAMA MIA, THAT'S A MEA CULPA | 6/30/1997 | See Source »

...grandmother, who had retained legal custody of him, moved him from the relative comfort of his uncle's home to what he calls "a desperate situation" at hers. His grandmother raised chickens and sold eggs, he says, but "on many days there was nothing to eat but sweet potato." Connerly fought back by taking a 27-hour-a-week job as a stock boy. He worked all through high school and college, paying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACE IN AMERICA: FAIRNESS OR FOLLY? | 6/23/1997 | See Source »

Named after a Dublin equivalent of Harvard Square, this restaurant combines traditional Irish cuisine with a contemporary dining atmosphere. It replaced One Potato, Two Potato on Mass. Ave. between Linden and Plympton streets...

Author: By Adam S. Hickey, | Title: The Changing Face of the Square | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

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