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The Web, the great time-killer that had replaced conspicuously passive television with its seductive illusion of productivity.

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Lionel Shriver
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 18
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Gastonia
North Carolina
Margaret Ann Shriver
Margaret Shriver
Great
Seductive
Time
Killer
Killers
Productivity
Passive
Replaced
Illusion
Television
Conspicuously

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