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Word: topness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...interviews and hearty rounds of Butt Bongo, the professional lech vowed he was faithful to his wife, portrayed in his autobiography and 1997 movie Private Parts as a dedicated partner who gave as good as she got. The Sterns offered little detail about the "amicable" split. For America's top exhibitionist, it seems, some parts remain private...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 1, 1999 | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

After watching a series of outrageous "Can you top this?" ads make an ever diminishing impact, a few dot.coms are apparently coming to the same conclusion. Outpost is going ahead with a less jarring ad. Technology supersite Cnet, which made a splash with an ad featuring a man's visit to the proctologist, is altering the course of its $100 million attack, opting for a clear message over shock value...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Net Loves Old Media | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

...many other fads that we shouldn't have invited back, are from the '70s, when high-protein plans like the Scarsdale Diet and Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution made fondue hip. Now the low-carb diets are back and bigger than ever. Low-carb-diet books will clog the top four spots in next Sunday's New York Times paperback best-seller list for advice and how-to books. Dr. Robert Atkins, at 69 still the reigning guru of the movement, is back on the charts with Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution. Other low-carb diet books jamming the shelves include...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Low-Carb Diet Craze | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

...Double Jeopardy. But No. 10 was very unusual indeed. Not only had The Omega Code, by an unknown independent called Gener8Xion Entertainment, grossed $2.4 million in three days, but it had done so in a mere 304 theaters, yielding by far the highest dollars-per-screen figure in the Top 10. And the suits didn't know the half of it. The movie, it turns out, was funded by what the Hollywood Reporter's David Finnigan describes (fondly--he moonlights as a religion journalist) as "a little Christian cable channel most noted for one of its co-hosts' having enormous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Born-Again Box Office | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

...sure, dial-up users get hit by Trojans too. But all the extra bandwidth provided by cable modems makes hackers salivate. If you've hooked up a microphone, the remote-access hacker can listen to your conversations in real-time. If you own one of those little monitor-top video cameras, he can watch you like Big Brother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hacker's Delight | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

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