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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most seductive thing about prohibition is that it keeps us from having to confront all the other little addictions that get us through the day. It's the NutraSweet in the coffee we use to wash down the chocolate mousse; a dad's "Just say no" commandments borne on martini-scented breath. "Don't do drugs," a Members Only ad advises. "Do clothes." Well, why "do" anything? Why not live more lightly, without compulsions of any kind? Then there's TV, the addiction whose name we can hardly speak -- the poor man's virtual reality, the substance-free citizen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kicking the Big One | 2/28/1994 | See Source »

...just don't wash my clothes much any more," Kuchner says...

Author: By Emily Carrier, | Title: Underground, Students Wage War Over Laundry | 2/26/1994 | See Source »

...representatives] wanted to talkpolitics, it could have been done back here,"O'Reilly said. "It doesn't wash...

Author: By Leondra R. Kruger, | Title: Lawmakers Abused Funds | 2/26/1994 | See Source »

...signs on most laundry room walls say that a wash cycle takes 34 minutes. They do not mean 35. Students say that if they fail to come downstairs to remove their laundry, someone else will do it for them...

Author: By Emily Carrier, | Title: Underground, Students Wage War Over Laundry | 2/26/1994 | See Source »

...frilly teddies or paste-on breast caps and panties. But the board of cosmetology denied him a license an hour before he was set to open, citing concerns over "safety" and "hygiene." (He was eventually allowed to operate.) A similar protest contributed to the demise recently of a car wash featuring women in thong bikinis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Las Vegas, U.S.A. | 1/10/1994 | See Source »

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