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Dates: during 1990-1999
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However, not all of the songs maintained her early energy. As the show went on, many started to drag, including the new compositions "I Want To Want You" and "Bad Day." Even the popular "Spin The Bottle" (as featured on the Reality Bites soundtrack) couldn't completely capture the fancy of the crowd, despite Juliana's assertion that it was a "song about Robert Redford...

Author: By Annie K. Zaleski, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hatfield's Audience Striken by Heat | 10/30/1998 | See Source »

...Bell and KFC into Tricon last year. The new strategy pushed Pizza Hut's same-store sales up a strong 9% in the second quarter, although the company said last week the pace slowed to 4% in the third quarter. "Pizza Hut has generated very strong results since the spin-off," says Speiser. Nonetheless, "as Pizza Hut continues to focus on building sales within its existing pizza operations, Papa John's will continue to gain market share...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Slice, Dice and Devour | 10/26/1998 | See Source »

President Clinton could take cues from Oprah. She admits experimenting with drugs, suffering childhood indignities, learning from bad relationships. Unlike so many who continue to make unhealthy choices, feeling sorry for themselves or blaming others, Oprah evolves. She doesn't spin around the same lame stuff. Think of what she's accomplished in one lifetime. Think of how everyone loves her. In a cynical, road-rage, self-absorbed America, Oprah is a hero we can all identify with and aspire to emulate. CHERYL O'DONOVAN URBANIK Schaumburg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 26, 1998 | 10/26/1998 | See Source »

...night, he peers out through slightly tinted glasses at the assembly-line progression of cars that advance to the starting line, then spurt, roaring, down the track. The small tarmac crew motions the cars into position, first giving them a chance to "warm up their tires." The drivers spin their tires on the slick, wet concrete slab, emitting a rising scream and belching out dense clouds of rubber-laced steam. "That's to get better traction," Bob explains. "You get the tires really hot so they just stick to the track." To facilitate this process, some drivers--Bob included...

Author: By Rebecca U. Weiner, | Title: Drag Night | 10/22/1998 | See Source »

Ultimately, Random House wins no matter what, because it can spin any reaction it gets in order to keep the novels in the spotlight and on the shelves. The company even offers certain deprecating comments on its Web site as evidence of all the controversy it has sparked. Though the New York Times says that "the streets will be littered with lists like this when the millennium comes, and when the millennium goes they will be swept into piles and forgotten," others put a more positive angle on the spats sparked by the list. Alain de Botton says, quite poetically...

Author: By Erwin R. Rosinberg, | Title: The Top 100 Novels...or Marketing Ploys? | 10/21/1998 | See Source »

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