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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...certain sections of The Wasteland over the phone to your mother, and your roommate notices that your speech is high-brow without noting that you are actually uttering sovereign metaphors for the emptiness of modern life. Thus, is The Cocktail Party's pro-found human philosophy slipped beneath the rug of Eliot's drawing room drama. Eliot's thought is incipient, but it is lent a certain credibility through its slippery resistance to categories of religion, modernism or classicism...

Author: By Benjamin E. Lytal, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: T.S. Eliot Mixes an Angst-Ridden `Cocktail' | 4/17/1998 | See Source »

...excited about that Giant Killer Asteroid streaking toward our planet. For a few delicious hours, cataclysmic devastation on an unparalleled scale hung in the air, perhaps the end of civilization as we know it. It happened to the dinosaurs; now it would happen to us! Then--bam!--the rug was pulled out from under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Upside Of Doom | 3/23/1998 | See Source »

...henchmen looking to extort money from the more estimable of the two Mr. Lebowskis have accidentally searched out the Dude instead, and when the Dude proclaims his indifference to the whole situation, one of the goons pees on his rug. (No one said this movie is elegant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Coen Brothers' Loopy Lebowski Is Rife With Memorable Characters | 3/13/1998 | See Source »

...really the quest to reclaim his rug--which, he says, "really tied the room together"--that embroils the Dude in an unsavory kidnapping case which has absolutely nothing to do with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Coen Brothers' Loopy Lebowski Is Rife With Memorable Characters | 3/13/1998 | See Source »

...Lebowski its title. His opposite number is better known as "Dude." Played by Jeff Bridges, he's a burned-out beach bum whose mental clock stopped sometime in the '70s. But when some thugs, mistaking him for his namesake, invade his pad, beat him up and, worse, ruin the rug that ties the whole living room together, he seeks redress. Or at least some replacement carpetry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Short Takes: The Big Lebowski | 3/2/1998 | See Source »

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