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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...plays baseball," says Jan Tulk, an attorney, during her fourth trip to Foodini's. "I'd say I end up cooking about half the time. The rest of the week it's usually fast food. This [pizza, clam chowder, salad] is a lot healthier." Although just a gourmet-pizza toss from the gas pump, Foodini's is decidedly upscale: light jazz, vodka-blush pasta sauce and not a microwave burrito in sight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Joy Of Not Cooking | 6/1/1998 | See Source »

...User Illusion was obviously not written in the interests of the average "Wheel of Fortune" viewer, but beyond the book’s grand foray into consciousness lies a simple admonition: redundancy hurts, for less is much, much more. Do not say more than necessary; do not toss superfluous words into written communication, and, if you are a game show contestant with any shred of sensibility, never buy the vowels, You will just be wasting your money, and it does not take a world-class physicist or mathematician to realize that what the letter following that "q" must be. Norretranders...

Author: By Andrea H. Kurtz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Value of a Vowel | 5/15/1998 | See Source »

...into a White House-led conversation on the subject. If there's anything this overheated issue does not need, it's more touchy-feely rhetoric and posturing from Washington. There are no subjects that we debate more incessantly--and pointlessly--than race relations, unless it's sports and politics. Toss the three together on cable TV in an attempt to grab a big audience of sports-addicted males, and the result can be vacuity on an Olympian scale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trash Talk on Sports | 4/27/1998 | See Source »

...People from Weld who are interested just get together and throw a Frisbee around," she says, alluding to the informal nature of her Frisbee group, which does not generally play ultimate Frisbee, opting for the less structured toss-around-a-circle route...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mad Fun In the Sun | 4/10/1998 | See Source »

Guess what? No longer do "sensitive musicians" have to use words to emote. Add a few Der Fuhrer-esque samples and some pregnant silences, toss with machine-gun beats, and you're the new alternative for teenagers who "feel so alone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: groovy train | 4/9/1998 | See Source »

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