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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...attendant, a young white guy, perhaps slightly simple, walks through the locker room collecting wet, castoff towels (including the bankers') and talking to himself in a loud voice. He repeats over and over: "THEY STOLE IT FROM US! THIS COUNTRY IS GOING STRAIGHT DOWN THE TUBES...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unity, Vote Counts and Other Illusions | 12/15/2000 | See Source »

...When you've been asked to describe your sound, one of the phrases you like to use is "wet, hard funk." Do you feel that maybe the dance music scene is becoming too interested in creating neat little genres? Are you afraid of your music being pigeonholed...

Author: By Thomas J. Clarke, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Maas Media: Madonna's New Remixer | 12/8/2000 | See Source »

...pigeonhole my music, which is for me the most important thing. I don't have any description-the owner of [German record label] MFS was the inventor of this "wet and hard" description. It fits my sound because the people are dancing, they are wet and the sound is quite hard as well. That's one description, but I just call it good music. I give a shit for styles, genres, whatever. I play everything, but it has to be good music...

Author: By Thomas J. Clarke, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Maas Media: Madonna's New Remixer | 12/8/2000 | See Source »

...fully equipped kitchen, a large oval dining table that could comfortably seat eight, four private bedrooms, two bathrooms, central air conditioning, an outdoor barbecue grill, a large TV, VCR and CD player, and cockpit controls. That was just the lower deck. Up top was a second cockpit, a wet bar and another refrigerator. Our girls zeroed in on what counted most for them--a steep water slide right off the top deck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Families: Be Admiral Of Your Own Houseboat | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

...Super Soaker is just one of 62 patents (with an additional 18 pending approval) that Johnson has amassed since his basement days. He's had ideas for hair-drying rollers, a digital thermostat, a baby-diaper detector that activates musical nursery rhymes when wet, and a device that measures soil moisture and waters grass automatically. Many of his ideas never went further than the prototype. He didn't have the money or the contacts in those early days to push them into production. "There are all kinds of ways to skin a cat, and there are all kinds of mousetraps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soaking In Success | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

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