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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...future. If videogaming is going to be one of the popular attractions in the mix of entertainment offerings on tomorrow's interactive TV systems -- and many are gambling that it will -- the people who create and market those games will have to know what makes people like the Bains tick. What do they want to play? Why? And, most important, how much are they willing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Amazing Video Game Boom | 9/27/1993 | See Source »

...becoming a true-blue. Harvard literati. (I just won't get another chance to name-drop Joseph Andrews and Walker Evans without someone throwing a brick at my head, will I? And most frighteningly of all, somewhere in the back of my mind, the thesis clock has started to tick--freedom will soon come crashing to an end, and long nights of genuine scholarship await. Sometime between now and unemployment, I've got to squeeze in some education...

Author: By Michael K. Mayo, | Title: Summer Reading | 8/3/1993 | See Source »

...Tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick...

Author: By John B. Trainer, | Title: Laxmen Explode At Ohiri | 4/29/1993 | See Source »

...interesting to see how Clinton balances the demands of his party's traditional constituencies with his pledge to be a new- style Democrat." TIME's new team will have to do some balancing of its own. No problem, says Duffy. "We're both very curious about what makes Clinton tick." The trick, says Carlson, "will be to share the agony and ecstasy in equal amounts." Like the new team that will occupy 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Carlson and Duffy are eager to get started...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From The Publisher: Jan. 25, 1993 | 1/25/1993 | See Source »

...York City has always been considered a strong bastion of support for Robert Abrams. So, the mood here is upbeat, but is becoming increasingly more cautious as the minutes and hours tick on, and we have not yet had either a concession speech from Robert Abrams, or a victory speech from Alfonse D'Amato. Charles Feldman CNN, November...

Author: By Joshua W. Shenk, | Title: EYES ON THE NEWS | 12/5/1992 | See Source »

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