Word: surfer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...site's visitors, whose opinion shows up in the tallies. President Clinton's lofty national approval ratings in conventional, scientific surveys were definitely not reflected in TIME Daily's own polls -- a twist that caused our voters no end of consternation. But that's the Web's own "caveat surfer," and it's probably preferable to fielding calls from Gallup in the middle of dinner. No, the online polls are not indicative of popular opinion. But unlike Gallup's, they're indicative of your opinion, and, if you've got one, TIME Daily doesn't care...
Pale and cadaverous, cowled and carrying a scythe? No, no, it's just so...medieval. You can't personify death that way anymore. Our age demands something hunkier, less menacing, sort of a surfer dude to help us catch the curl of our last wave gracefully...
...PUBLIC DISCLOSURE: My Personal Beef with Mr.Steve Albini: Steve called Surfer Rosa, thefirst album by the Pixies and an album notincidentally produced by Steve-o himself, "apatchwork pinch loaf from a band who at their topdollar best are blandly entertaining collegerock." This really angers up the blood. SurferRosa is one of the best rock albums ever. ThePixies are one of the best rock bands ever. On theother hand, Steve recorded a song called "nuttyabout lemurs." This counts for a lot, in my book...
Meanwhile, Mayer said, HDS is "conducting a worldwide search of galactic proportions" for the new voice. "Maybe the Silver Surfer will come down and be our Menu Man," Mayer added...
...Secret Service agents may have suspected Monica was up to no good, but all they did was hold her up at the gate for security checks. One labeled her a "hall surfer" and "a cross between a stalker and a 15-year-old chasing a rock star." But their only revenge was to see her sweat. Agent Steve Pape described an occasion when Monica waited for clearance in the heat. "She was sweating," said Pape. "I mean, lots of sweat, on her dress, down her back... By the time the appointment finally...was in the system and she went...