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...around Manhattan, then throw lavish parties for the marketing executives they want to sucker into buying ads. Dozens of new TV programs are unveiled here each year -comedies, dramas, specials, reality shows. It's like Christmas all week -albeit a Christmas where you know 90% of your presents will suck, and most will end up, unloved and barely used, in the garbage scant weeks after they're opened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Upfronts: NBC Gets Peacock-y | 5/14/2002 | See Source »

...wouldn’t be wohth the effaht cuz Nomah’s gonna win that shit anyway. Nomah! Yankees suck! Nomah! (Townies only...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fifteen Reasons I Didn't Run the Boston Marathon | 4/18/2002 | See Source »

...sounded like a good idea: give smokers something to suck on that will satisfy their nicotine cravings without all the health problems associated with smoking. But unlike earlier nicotine substitutes--the patches and the chewing gums--these come in appealing flavors like Very Berry and Lemon Lime and are shaped like lollipops and gummi bears. And that's what put them in the crosshairs of antismoking activists. Because if there's one thing that's likely to be more addictive than cigarettes, it's nicotine-laced candy, particularly if kids ever get hold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Licking the Habit | 4/15/2002 | See Source »

Folks who smoke more than 1 1/2 packs a day are supposed to start with the 4-mg pops and work their way down to 2 mg after a couple of weeks. The idea is not to suck on the things continuously but only when the urge to smoke becomes overpowering. Once the craving has passed, you're instructed to put the lollipop back in its reusable bag. One pop is supposed to replace four or five cigarette breaks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Licking the Habit | 4/15/2002 | See Source »

...seven years on the couch was enough for Richter. "I didn't want to resent the show," he says. "If I stayed longer, I would have become like a kid who didn't leave home when he should have. I'd start thinking, 'My parents suck,' when the truth is really, 'No, you should have gotten a job.'" He has one now, starring in the funniest new sitcom of the spring, Andy Richter Controls the Universe (Fox, Tuesdays, 8:30 p.m. E.T.), which not only shows that Richter has not lost his mind but also invites you inside his head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Sidekick On The Loose! | 3/25/2002 | See Source »

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