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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...past year, 63.7 billion pieces of third-class mail landed in mailboxes across America. Where does it all come from? How did they get your name? And how can you curb it? -- Fax and phone solicitations: the newest generation of junk. -- Fighting recession blues by giving greed another chance. -- A Harlem bank failure wounds local pride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page Vol. 136, No. 23 NOVEMBER 26, 1990 | 11/26/1990 | See Source »

When Prince introduced his carbolic combination of Jimi Hendrix guitar overkill and contemporary dance rhythms, he seemed like just the man to take the musical past into the future. Recently, though, he seems stuck in his own deep groove. Graffiti Bridge, his newest album, is by turns intrepid and retrograde, bold and silly. That's not necessarily an unusual mix for Prince, but what's new -- and increasingly troublesome -- is his reliance on retreaded riffs and shopworn memories. Graffiti Bridge, the movie for which the album is the sound track, looks loopy, narcissistic and generally dispirited. It continues Prince...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Still Thriving on Home Turf | 11/19/1990 | See Source »

Unfortunately, nosering wearers acknowledge that their nasal adornments often end up piercing their parents' hearts. For Nestor, at least, Mom and Dad were less than thrilled at their child's newest jewelry item...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, | Title: They've Got a Nose for Fashion | 11/15/1990 | See Source »

...looks like a 9-in. cloth-covered ruler, but a quick downward flick will send it curling around your wrist. And before you can say Slap Wrap, you are wearing the newest preteen craze. The bracelet's manufacturer, Connecticut- based Main Street Toy, sells nearly 500,000 a week (retail price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TOYS: A Slap On the Wrist | 11/12/1990 | See Source »

...newest fad is for even more atomization: not just republics but pieces of republics and even single cities are proclaiming themselves sovereign. Within the Russian federation, the Chuvash, Buryat, Kalmyk, Tatar, Mari, Komi, Yakut, Karelian and Bashkir autonomous republics, each the homeland of a distinct ethnic group, have all called for some form of separatism. Districts like the Irkutsk region of Siberia have adopted declarations of "equality and independence," and the city of Nizhni-Novgorod has petitioned the federation for special status...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Time of Troubles | 11/12/1990 | See Source »

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