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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...star's car, just as it's nice to be a TV star. And now that even Mikhail Gorbachev has begun doing commercials for Pizza Hut, it seems pointless to argue with the medium that so dominates our lives and culture. Most of us threw in the towel long ago. But not Jerry Seinfeld. While the rest of America has been off getting college credit for studying Silver Spoons, the star, one of the executive producers of the situation comedy that bears his last name, is unafraid to bite the hand that feeds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1989-1998 Transformation | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

...Union we are becoming weaker, in my view because many of us have prematurely thrown in the towel. We, the members, are the Union, and it is our responsibility to each other and to the future security, health, benefit and strength of our work lives at Harvard to turn this thing around...

Author: By Thompson E. Potter jr., | Title: HUCTW Workers, Unite! | 3/5/1998 | See Source »

Covered only by a towel, Biller said he fell while trying to trip the intruder, and the burglar subsequently fled...

Author: By Scott A. Resnick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Adams House Student Catches Thief in the Act | 3/2/1998 | See Source »

Republic columnist David Leibowitz, a former Arpaio cheerleader, says he had a change of heart after examining details surrounding the death of an inmate who suffocated in 1996 while locked into a restraining chair with a towel over his head. Arpaio says he wants a jail visit to be a miserable experience; critics note that three-fourths of his inmates can't make bail and haven't even had a trial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arizona: It's No Party in the County Jail | 3/2/1998 | See Source »

...them Porsches, which he warehouses in an airport hangar in Santa Monica). And now that even Mikhail Gorbachev has begun doing commercials for Pizza Hut, it seems pointless to argue with the medium that so dominates our lives and culture. Most of us threw in the towel long ago. But not Jerry Seinfeld. While the rest of America has been off getting college credit for studying Silver Spoons, the star, one of the executive producers of the situation comedy that bears his last name, is unafraid to bite the hand that feeds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: It's All About Timing | 1/12/1998 | See Source »

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