Word: want
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Tony says he and Hugh are no Billy Carter. When he's approached by those who want to exploit his family ties, Tony says, "I tell them to take a hike. I don't do business that way." But the brothers themselves might be well advised to hike away from a few more business opportunities. When you're related to the White House, a deal isn't always just a deal...
...slacker-punk pitchman, Stuart, a sharp, hilarious contrast to the suits around him, has helped sell its slogan "Believe in Yourself." Career site Monster.com is taking a subtler approach. In its now famous spot, debuted during last year's Super Bowl, bright-eyed kids recite such lines as "I want to be forced into early retirement." Says Monster CEO Jeff Taylor: "Funny's good, but you have to end up with a good, lasting impression once you grab their attention...
What's happening is a boom in low-carb diets, the weight-loss schemes that allow you to eat all the protein you want--steak, eggs, even fatty bacon--so long as you cut way down on carbohydrates like bread, pasta and soda. The fat-embracing diets, like so 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...
...WANT TO SLEEP TONIGHT (A) PLOT: Reading inspires sweeter dreams than television...
...rest of us want to salvage this upcoming New Year's Eve from a monumental letdown, we need to recognize its true ritualistic function. New Year's Eve--and nye-y2k beyond any other--is not a celebration of the future. It's an elegy for the past. As I sit here, on the brink of the fin de millennium, I'm already misty-eyed with nostalgia. I'll miss the 20th century. I really liked it. I liked the abstract art, the 12-tone music, the absurdist theater, the austere furniture, the Manichaean bipolar geopolitics. And so, given...