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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wrong; I really do love being a college student. Once a week, though, it's wonderful to get away from the very real horrors associated with my Ec 10 problem set and take a flight of fancy that includes flukemen, flesh-eating viruses and disastrous trips into the woods (kind of like FOP). It may be an escapist principle, but I think the feeling is universal. Alien invasions, ghosts, monsters, things that go bump in the night--these concepts are intrinsic to human nature. Every civilization throughout history has incorporated some sort of variation on the theme into their cultural...

Author: By Alixandra E. Smith, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Endpaper: X-Static! | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

...Vaux then notes that Justin, a Harvard Law student who was a cast member in The Real World Hawaii season, looks like TinTin. "He has that haircut, and he just looks a lot like him in general. He actually left the show, though. He couldn't take...

Author: By Alicia A. Carrasquillo, Sarah L. Gore, and Samuel Hornblower, S | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Jamming with Prof. Vaux | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

...there were one or two good groups, and I like 80s classics like "Too Shy" and "867-5309", but genres like hair metal (Stryper, Dokken, etc.) were a travesty, and those fake drum sounds that everyone used in the mid and late 80s were god-awful. Bear in mind though that I'm biased in judging decades by the fact that my fashion and music tastes froze in about 1982. However, to my credit I do find the 90s fashion and music quite palatable on the whole...

Author: By Alicia A. Carrasquillo, Sarah L. Gore, and Samuel Hornblower, S | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Professor Fun Facts | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

...reason that Star Wars (and Raiders of the Lost Ark and Bladerunner) succeeded, but when I watch the movie again these days I'm most pleased by Alec Guinness' performance. Ewan MacGregor's imitation of Guinness' way of speaking in the new movie was a nice touch, though it didn't quite cancel...

Author: By Alicia A. Carrasquillo, Sarah L. Gore, and Samuel Hornblower, S | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Professor Fun Facts | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

...programmed rock track on his Tecnics H-100 keyboard and then changing chords with one finger, he sets up background noise for his uniformly structured songs, of which he has written at least 700. He's released 20 or 30 albums since 1994, most of them self-produced, though some appear on Jello Biafra's record label, Alternative Tentacles...

Author: By Benjamin D. Mathis-lilley, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Sucking a Caribou's Ass?: An Evening With the World's Weirdest Rock Star | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

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