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...Drugs, Rock & Roll Call Eric Bogosian a performance artist, monologist, short-story writer or even playwright. By whatever name, he is one of the shrewdest contemporary critics of the phony, the self-serving, the amoral and the damned. This off-Broadway collection of skits is a caustic vision of greed and substance abuse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best of '90: Theater | 12/31/1990 | See Source »

...fled Vietnam on April 30, 1975, the day that Saigon fell. He made his way to Washington's "Little Saigon" and launched a caustic anti-Hanoi column for the Vietnamese-language biweekly Tien Phong. For years, he castigated the Vietnamese government for, as a colleague put it, "betraying the people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Like Father, Like Son: A columnist is ambushed | 10/8/1990 | See Source »

...terrible," said Robert E. Lee during the Battle of Fredericksburg. "We should grow too fond of it." Abraham Lincoln was inspiring even in his black moods ("If there is a worse place than hell, I am in it," he said at one low point) and his caustic ones. "If General McClellan does not want to use the Army," he complained of his dithering military chief, "I would like to borrow it for a time." William Tecumseh Sherman, preparing to march on Atlanta, exhorted, "War is the remedy our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: The Terrible Remedy THE CIVIL WAR | 9/24/1990 | See Source »

Kimber said Gilette currently uses both the draize eye-irritancy test and the lethal-dose toxicity test in their laboratories, both of which were developed in the first half of the century. The draize test, involves immobilizing rabbits and dropping caustic substances into their eyes. In the lethal-dose toxicity test, poisonous substances are sprayed into the animals' faces...

Author: By Madhavi Sunder, | Title: Animal Rights Advocates Protest Mockler, Gillette | 7/31/1990 | See Source »

...have dissented against what can only be seen as totalitarian methods and paranoid, hostile demogoguery advanced by the leadership of the Republican Club. The name "Republican" has been selfishly invoked in an attempt to legitimize caustic and deeply personal crusades against gays, abortion, Liberals, moral relativists, etc. In their blind, unqualified support of rightist, truth-proclaiming organizations like Peninsula and Association Against Learning in the Absense of Religion and Morality (AALARM), however, Anderson and his majority have undermined the club's legitimacy and credibility. They have isolated themselves in a monolithic, polarized extreme. Of course, they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conservatives Against AALARM | 5/25/1990 | See Source »

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