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Word: billboards (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dayami is about 30, lipsticked, in tight black jeans with a black mesh shirt over a sports bra. She's a doctor, on her way to pick up her daughter at school. We ask if it's hard to get medicine. After all, on the way from Havana, a billboard had read: YANKEE EMBARGO: GENOCIDE AGAINST CUBA. She says no, not really...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hitchhiker's Cuba | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

...each of the distribution centers. Here in Coffeyville, the high walls are painted white, and the endless rows of stock shelves shine in fluorescent yellow--the better to see the billboard-size banners that festoon the aisles and walls. "Our vision," reads one, "is the world's most customer-centric company. The place where people come to find and discover anything they might want to buy online." Another banner floats above one of the aisles and lists the company's Six Core Values ("customer obsession, ownership, bias for action, frugality, high hiring bar and innovation"). It's like the Cultural...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jeff Bezos: Bio: An Eye On The Future | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

...course, by the one, the only, Carson Daly. There's no denying it no matter how much you loathe the show Total Request Live is the arena to launch music (the American Bandstand of the '90s). If you crack the countdown, chances are you'll show up on the Billboard Hot 100 the next Thursday. Want proof? Remember, TRL was the show that first flaunted Britney Spears' assets (all two of them) with the schoolgirl-themed Baby One More Time last December. But TRL once known for having Backstreet Boys at #1, 'NSync at #2, 98 Degrees at #3 every...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Soman's In The [K]now | 12/17/1999 | See Source »

...Live, (TRL) hosted, of course, by the one, the only, Carson Daly. Theres no denying itno matter how much you loathe the showTotal Request Live is the arena to launch music (the American Bandstand of the 90s). If you crack the countdown, chances are youll show up on the Billboard Hot 100 the next Thursday. Want proof? Remember, TRL was the show that first flaunted Britney Spears assets (all two of them) with the schoolgirl-themed Baby One More Time last December. But TRL once known for having Backstreet Boys at #1, NSync at #2, 98 Degrees at #3 every...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, A POP CULTURE COMPENDIUM | Title: Soman's In The [K]now | 12/10/1999 | See Source »

...potluck dinners on Mondays, poetry readings on Mondays, figure drawing on Wednesdays, jazz on Thursdays and improvisational jazz on Fridays. The director says that he likes multimedia art and installations, preferably "non-traditional" and "politically involved." Currently showing are garish, clumsy paintings by David Grossack and Michael Hallaren. A billboard on the side of the Harvest Co-op in Central Square ("The Zeitgeist Artboard: Gallery of the People's Republic of Cambridge") offers additional exhibition space for local artists...

Author: By Annie Bourneuf, Kirstin Butler, and Jenny Tu, S | Title: The Field Guide: Art in Boston | 12/10/1999 | See Source »

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