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...worth, I won't be buying it. Nor will I be outfitting my wreck with Visteon's Rear-Seat Entertainment Center ($1,300), a system that houses a monitor, a video deck and a Nintendo 64 video-game console. But I suspect a lot of other people will scoop the thing up. Visteon's rig can be purchased through Ford and Lincoln-Mercury dealers starting in April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gadgets Galore | 1/18/1999 | See Source »

...good news is that students craving dessert or an after-dinner jolt of java can enter Herrell's Ice Cream and Starbucks in the Square and it won't make a difference. A scoop of ice cream or a latte cost the same at the heart of Boston's Newbury Street as it does right outside the Yard...

Author: By Vasant M. Kamath, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: A SQUARE DEAL | 12/15/1998 | See Source »

...sensors, it will study Mars' terrain and weather, snapping pictures both during its descent and on the surface. It will also carry a microphone to record for the first time the sound of the Martian wind. More important, the ship will be equipped with a robotic arm and scoop, much like the arms carried aboard the Viking landers in the 1970s. Unlike the Vikings, though, which were able to paw just a few feeble inches into the Martian topsoil, the new ship will gouge out a trench nearly 3 ft. deep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Digging Mars | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

...they really are, or, furthermore, what they really think. Probably even more significantly, vague action extends to the social sphere. Could-be, should-be and should-not-be relationships are all marked by indeterminate phrases heard all too often in conversation between potential mates. Fortunately, Teen FM has the scoop on ambiguity in romantic dialogue, not to mention the common follies of misinterpreters...

Author: By Richard S. Gipstein, | Title: He Said She Said | 11/12/1998 | See Source »

...replace Pollock's own woundingly absent father. Thus the future avant-gardist had for a mentor a man who hated abstract art. But when Pollock came under Benton's tutelage, he wasn't aiming at abstraction. Benton's way of composing, with its heftily twisting figures and buckling, scoop-and-bump space, was based on 16th century Mannerism--Midwestern El Greco and Tintoretto; he even adapted the Mannerist device of reducing the figures to geometrical dolls, sometimes modeling them in clay. This vehemence, locked up as a system, appealed to Pollock as a container for his own emotional flailing. Though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Dappled Glories | 11/9/1998 | See Source »

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