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billybrobby
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 Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 10:50 pm Post subject: Complete archives for Time magazine |
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If you're on this board, you've got a computer and like to waste time. So it may be of some interest to you that Time magazine has opened its archives and published every article from 1923 until present for free on the web.
www.time.com/time/search/
It's pretty interesting. If you search for 'karaoke', it first appears in 1983. 'Disco' in 1966. And "fanny pack" in 1991 (oddly late, i think). 'Krunk' has never appeared -- oh, wait, it's spelled 'crunk' and it appears in 2005. I'm not sure if the search function is fully retrieving everything that it ought to, but it's fun to play games like that. |
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DRAMA OVERKILL
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| Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 12:01 am Post subject: |
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ED209
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| Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 12:12 am Post subject: |
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Hey Korea pops up on Saturday, Mar. 03, 1923.
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| Gandhism is rife in Korea, province of Japan. Koreans are being urged by their leaders to use only articles of Korean manufacture. Although civil disobedience has not been advised, the movement is an attempt to copy the Gandhi methods in India. Governor-General Saito says that the people are as a whole satisfied with the Japanese regime and that the state of unrest should not be taken too seriously. |
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billybrobby
Joined: 09 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 12:13 am Post subject: |
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Dig this, from a 1987 article about the Olympics:
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| Over the past decade, South Korea has spent some $3 billion on preparations for the Games. Moreover, it finished the work well ahead of schedule, whereas at Montreal in 1976 the readiness of the facilities was in doubt right down to the wire. |
disorganized, wait-til-the-last-minute Canadians. when will they learn from Korea? |
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Hanson
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| Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 12:16 am Post subject: |
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| billybrobby wrote: |
Dig this, from a 1987 article about the Olympics:
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| Over the past decade, South Korea has spent some $3 billion on preparations for the Games. Moreover, it finished the work well ahead of schedule, whereas at Montreal in 1976 the readiness of the facilities was in doubt right down to the wire. |
disorganized, wait-til-the-last-minute Canadians. when will they learn from Korea? |
Laugh of the day! That's great! 
Excellent heads-up, billy. |
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billybrobby
Joined: 09 Dec 2004
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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The first mention of kimchi, May 1st 1950, is in an article entitled "Koreans in a hurry" about Koreans winning the Boston Marathon:
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Their 26-mile trip over the marathon route was fueled by Korean kimchi, a mixture of garlic and onions, hot peppers and chopped cabbage.
Baby-faced Kee Yong Ham came in first (2 hr. 32 min. 39 sec.). With true Korean courtesy, he announced that he was disappointed because Korean Champion Yun, who placed third, was not able to win. |
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,812351,00.html |
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Tiberious aka Sparkles
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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| Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 6:44 am Post subject: |
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I'm a little concerned that the search function, upon finding no results, reads:
Not finding what you need
All your base, Time magazine. |
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billybrobby
Joined: 09 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 11:41 pm Post subject: |
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I found this interesting:
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| A man may be a perfectly decorous office worker at 4:55 p.m., but by 5:05, after one drink at the bar around the corner, he may be a giggling buffoon. Extremely rigid codes define proper behavior in virtually every social situation, but there are no codes at all to cover many modern contingencies. That is why so much body-checking and elbowing go on in a Tokyo subway or department store. As Author-Translator Edward Seidensticker puts it in his recent Japan: "They are extremely ceremonious toward those whom they know, and highly unceremonious toward others. Few urban Japanese bother to say 'Excuse me' after stepping on a person's toes or knocking a book out of his hand�provided the person is a stranger. If he is known, it is very common to apologize for offenses that have not been committed." |
It's from an article about Japan from 1970 called "The Japanese Century". But what kind of century lasts from 1970 to 1989? |
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TECO
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 10:24 am Post subject: |
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is this normal for magazines to do this?
I'd like to see this done with National Geographic? |
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