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...officer and recording secretary of the Mark Twain Committee on Weather (my first-year roommate informed me the old salt once said, "If you don't like the weather in New England, wait a minute"), I explained I looked outside in the morning, listened for wind, tried to judge the character of the clouds, and out I went. No charts, no tables, nothing written down to be contradicted...

Author: By Adam I. Arenson, | Title: Dartboard: Come Again Some Other Day | 10/15/1999 | See Source »

...SHANIA TWAIN Sexy country singer wins top award. Guys agree: best Canadian import since Molson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Oct. 4, 1999 | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

From Aristotle to Twain to Joyce, the complaint is the same: too much reading...

Author: By Jenny E. Heller and Erica B. Levy, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: The Neverending Story: Tales from the Harvard Oeuvre | 10/1/1999 | See Source »

...hillside West Virginia farm plowed by a team of Percheron draft horses. School was his parents' kitchen, his neighbors' fields. Town was a country crossroads with two stores, and entertainment a new book from the library. And though the young man with the Old Testament name and the Mark Twain upbringing later went on to study at Harvard and Yale, mixing with the privileged and the trend-conscious, his heart remained in the hills, beneath the oaks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Optimist In a Jaded Age | 9/20/1999 | See Source »

...part of BTM's appeal is that the artists--from scandalized lip-synchers Milli Vanilli (whose story kicked off the series in August 1997) to Heart to Shania Twain--talk candidly about, well, pretty much everything. Mothers and fathers and siblings and lovers spill too. Because artists often own the rights to their songs--and BTM relies on them for permission to use that music--VH1 won't do the show without their cooperation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Rock-'n'-Roll Confidential | 8/23/1999 | See Source »

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