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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Best Song Strange Fruit by Billie Holiday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Of The Century | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...most Web grocers sniff at the Walker model. Their customers are so in love with delivery, they don't even miss manhandling the fruit and vegetables. "I never knew what I was sniffing for in a cantaloupe anyway," says Molloy. Liz Stone concurs. These days, she only sets foot in a regular grocery store about once a month, for the odd item she forgot. "When we do go now, it's like a treat for the kids," she says. Children who actually enjoy supermarket shopping? The wonders of e-commerce will never cease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food Fight! Food Fight! | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

Still, the campaign is about to bear at least some fruit. Following a series of meetings between network chiefs and N.A.A.C.P. officials in Baltimore over the past couple of weeks, the four networks are close to an agreement to implement a series of diversity initiatives, while the N.A.A.C.P. has all but dropped its boycott threat. Mfume seems to have realized that old-line civil rights tactics of boycotts and picket lines hold less sway on the Left Coast than power lunches and air kisses. What finally worked was the same back-room conciliatory politics that made Mfume a force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ending the Whitewash | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

Detective Lennie Briscoe (Jerry Orbach), Law & Order I would read them their Carmen Miranda rights: "You have the right to wear a big floppy hat piled with fruit. You have the right to wear platform heels. You have the right to say 'Chick-a-BOOM, Chick-a-BOOM' in a court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 60 Second Symposium | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

...Back-in-the-day, as one is wont to say, we had CB jackets with Freaky Freazies inside. No need for smart wool jackets or canvas my-first-briefcases. We'd wrap a sheet of strawberry Fruit Roll Up around our index finger, then lick. Eeew. Anna stuck a tic tac up her nose. (The school nurse used tweezers to dislodge the one-calorie mint...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Groovy Train | 12/16/1999 | See Source »

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