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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this activity is in preparation for World Cup USA94, which begins in Chicago on Friday. Forget the Super Bowl, World Series and Olympic Games. The World Cup is the most eagerly anticipated event on the sporting calendar for most people on earth. Held every four years, the tournament decides the world championship of football -- the kind of football actually played with the feet. Like America's Dream Team in Olympic basketball, the teams are made up of a country's best players. Some may play professionally in a league on a foreign continent, but they play for their national teams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 190 Countries Can't Be Wrong | 6/20/1994 | See Source »

...time and orchestrated it for tuba, kazoo and other instruments that mimic indiscreet bodily functions. Then he set this raucous pastiche to a junkyard syncopation of washboards, cap pistols, Klaxon and bicycle horns, pie pans and garbage cans -- augmented by bird whistles, brays and tag lines from radio ads ("Super Suds!" "Bromo Seltzer!" "Beeeeee Ohhhhhh!") -- until the whole thing sounded the way Fibber McGee's closet clattered, the way a Tex Avery cartoon looks, the way Bart Simpson's mind works...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: Spike Up the Band | 6/13/1994 | See Source »

This year's keyboard-wielding Harvard super-conservatives have come up with a number of timeless articles on such topics as "Liberals are idiots," "Boy are liberals idiots," and "Liberals are idiots because the don't have anything to say." In fact, in recent months they've proven it possible to write entire columns about how little liberals have to say--leaving, unfortunately, no room for any ideas of their...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, | Title: The Answers We've Been Waiting For | 6/9/1994 | See Source »

...SUPER-UPLIFT bra -- a high-tech, cleverly marketed 90's version of the old-fashioned push-up bra -- was introduced two months ago with a torrent of hype. Demand, however, has not been uniformly distributed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Map Idaho Says No to Super-Uplift | 5/30/1994 | See Source »

...SUPER TOMATO...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Winners & Losers: May 30, 1994 | 5/30/1994 | See Source »

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