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Looking quite determined, the coiffed white-haired players sit poised with their neon colored "dobbers," waiting for the next number to be called in this intense arena of competition. Suddenly a shrill cry of "BINGO" eminates from the audience and a unanimous disappointed sigh permeates the air. The numbers are read back to check for cheating, as everyone waits with baited breath, hoping that this string of luck is only a farce. Five crisp 20s are quickly distributed to the proud winner, and in true Bingo tradition, the money is laid out over the remaining cards in order to bring...

Author: By Ariel B. Osceola, | Title: for the moment | 10/22/1998 | See Source »

...slow emergence. The cocoon breaks and out of the depths of cynical garage-rock and tortured, pre-millenial angst there climbs a thing of radiant beauty--a wonder of nature so luminous and pure that we can do nothing but raise our tear-filled eyes to the heavens, sigh in complete abandon and carefully begin to shake some serious booty...

Author: By Erin E. Billings, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Coughing Bears: Fracturing the Narrative and Other Misadventures | 10/16/1998 | See Source »

...have a prediction: Clinton sweats bullets while this thing drags through Congress. He manages to survive and stay in office. Clinton breathes a huge sigh of relief, thanks God and then goes out and does it all over again. ROB KISER Pound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 5, 1998 | 10/5/1998 | See Source »

...Griffey, surely of the mad bombers McGwire and Sosa. We may have to wait 20 years--when, say, Matt McGwire, now 11 and a weekend bat boy for his father's team, threatens to hit 100 homers in a season--for reality to set in. Then the geezers will sigh and say, "Ahhhh, remember the glory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball These Are The Good Old Days | 9/14/1998 | See Source »

...debris on the floor and root through empty ice-cream containers, half-empty cigarette cartons and thick Windows 98 self-help books to find what I'm looking for: that new Carnegie Mellon University study suggesting that using the Internet can cause isolation, loneliness and depression. Whatever, I sigh, and roll over for another nap. But later, when I wake up and go online, I can't seem to shake the thing. The researchers purport to have measured, over the course of two years, the deleterious effects of a mere hour a week of Net use. They reported an average...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bummed Like Me | 9/14/1998 | See Source »

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