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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...except maybe marinate and roast them, which it appears the chefs at HDS tried to do yesterday. I'm not sure what the marinade consisted of, exactly, but I'm not sure it matters, either. Somewhere along the line, it appears the ill-fated legs were popped into a vacuum pump for freeze-drying...

Author: By Stephen E. Frank, | Title: These Wings Don't Fly | 9/23/1993 | See Source »

...intellectually inferior dog that you are. In fact, I should expect to be crucified for even making these observations. Tolerance apparently only extends to accepted wisdom. In the pursuit of freedom for all, we are wandering haphazardly down the path of complete repression. Only in such a miserable intellectual vacuum can we take such supreme delight in the intensely stupid antics of two poorly-drawn, obnoxious cartoon characters...

Author: By Brad EDWARD White, | Title: Malcontents | 9/22/1993 | See Source »

TIME has chronicled every aspect of the computer age, of course, from the vacuum-tube machines that filled entire rooms in the early 1950s to the cyberpunks we featured in a cover story earlier this year. Written by associate editor Philip Elmer-DeWitt, who helped design our new service and will also help run it, the cyberpunk article provoked furious comment from an interactive network that we invited to review the piece, and showed the potential for online response...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From The Publisher: Sep. 13, 1993 | 9/13/1993 | See Source »

...baffling the grader or by fencing with him but like this. "It is absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we note the progress of that age on all intellectual fronts. After all, Hume did not live in a vacuum...

Author: By John B. Trainer, | Title: How to Beat the System | 8/17/1993 | See Source »

Maybe Coleman knew that with baseball's current vacuum of leadership, there was no one running the Grand Old Game to make sure he wouldn't get away with...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: While The Game Goes Up in Smoke | 8/3/1993 | See Source »

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