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...that vending machines hold a future breakfast staple, one can only expect candy for breakfast, synthetic fruit for artificially sweetened hot cereal, and microwaveable concoctions of bagels, pork, eggs and grease. Then again, given the alternatives, Coke may actually be a cylinder of hope rising out of the vast wasteland created by breakfast pollutants. Burp...

Author: By Laurie M. Grossman, | Title: Snap, Crackle and Pop | 10/14/1987 | See Source »

From Reno I took a bus to L.A., but the bus broke down in the desert and all we could find to eat in the arid wasteland were dried peyote buds...

Author: By Rutger Fury, | Title: Summer: And the Living Wasn't Easy | 9/26/1987 | See Source »

Wilson's walk on the wild side is set in a New York City greasy spoon. This diner serves as an oasis in the urban wasteland for more than 20 outcasts and losers of every stripe--hoods, hustlers, whores, queens, dykes, drunks, punks and junkies...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Sleaze On Down the Road | 9/25/1987 | See Source »

...truly conveyed was the sense of isolation at the top. Lansbury proved an essentially private woman, who needed to close her dressing room door to escape the prying eyes of the public. The kind of woman who would close her dressing room door to insulate herself from the moral wasteland that is the entertainment world...

Author: By Eric A. Morris, | Title: The Stars Juast Seem to Like Me: | 5/1/1987 | See Source »

There are a variety of possible reasons for this. For one thing, in the moral wasteland that is our entertainment industry, the idea of voting for the sentimental favorite has a tremendous psychological appeal...

Author: By Eric A. Morris, | Title: Sentimental Favoritism | 4/13/1987 | See Source »

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