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...about to get sick of game shows. So instead of waiting for the fad to run its course, the four major networks have decided to force feed you, figuring they'll suck all they can out of their oil well before it dries up. Television has become efficient at eating itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Going Millionaire Crazy! | 1/17/2000 | See Source »

Bezos invented nothing. He runs an e-mail-order company that is clever about advertising itself, but mail-order and catalog sales are nothing new. So he's a billionaire--big deal! He figured out a way to suck in lots of investor capital and enrich himself and a few other people. He's an e-capitalist on a roll. He has all the earmarks of a robber baron. JEREMY SMITHSON Seattle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 17, 2000 | 1/17/2000 | See Source »

Keys' passion certainly seems to lie in music instead of bakery items. He is outspoken about the subject, offering opinions on everything from a Violent Femmes song piped into the store ("they suck") to a Fiona Apple poster ("she's pretty...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Gudrais and David C. Newman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: 'Tis the Season to Work for Square Employers | 12/15/1999 | See Source »

...serialized novel. It's 1935, and we're on a Southern prison's death row, where the only recreation is watching a mouse commandeer the corridor. Enter a new inmate, John Coffey (Michael Clarke Duncan), a giant black man with a gift of preternatural empathy; he can literally suck the pain out of people. Paul Edgecomb (Tom Hanks), the chief guard of E Block, is in awe of this white magic. He benefits from it, uses it to help a friend and, eventually, pays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Doing Hard Time On Death Row | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

...women of the Radcliffe Choral Society are having a quiet Friday night gathering. They are generous with their food, tasty Nutter Butter cookies and Doritos. We tell them about our Spin the Bottle escapade, and they eagerly offer detailed instructions on how to play a "card game" known as "suck and blow." With a chorus of all females and just a single male photographer, however, the game will have to be saved for another night...

Author: By Lisa J. Powell, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Just Can't Get Enough: One Night, 15 Parties | 12/9/1999 | See Source »

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