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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Well, forget about it, Bubby. Slang may be substandard, the stepsister of Standard English, but it has enlivened the language for centuries. It is so deeply embedded in the daily life of Americans that no amount of bad-mouthing or mouthwashing by box-headed double-domes, drelbs, brainos and chuckleheads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Substandard-Bearer | 7/4/1994 | See Source »

The second point of consensus is that historically the welfare system has rewarded everything it ought to prevent and punished everything it ought to promote. "The Federal Government has created a monster," says Ann Clark, a welfare case manager in Colorado Springs, Colorado. "I'm dealing with third- generation recipients...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Welfare Reform: The Vicious Cycle | 6/20/1994 | See Source »

Embedded in the stories of World War II is the legend of Spam, the manufactured ham substitute put out by the Hormel Co. in Minnesota. Spam was a wartime triumph, but the legend is mostly wrong. Several months ago, Hormel celebrated the production of the 5 billionth can of Spam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Home Front | 6/13/1994 | See Source »

In 1886, on the occasion of Harvard's 250th anniversary, Charles William Eliot, the University's greatest president, painted an optimistic picture of its future. "Universities are among the most permanent of human institutions," Eliot said. "They outlast particular forms of government, and even the legal and industrial institutions in...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Money Can't Buy Us Change | 6/9/1994 | See Source »

If one were forced to pick the best single picture De Kooning ever painted, it would probably have to be Excavation, 1950: that tangled, not-quite monochrome, dirty-cream image of -- what? Bodies is the short answer: every one of the countless forms that seem embedded in the paint, jostling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: Seeing the Face in the Fire | 5/30/1994 | See Source »

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