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Word: coven (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...version of the national anthem, scratched her groin and spit at a ball game recently, she crossed the line between comedy and crudity. For an emerging group of female laugh getters, grossing out audiences is left to the likes of Andrew Dice Clay and Sam Kinison. Coven-like hairstyles are passe; so are Elizabeth Taylor fat jokes, delivered Uzi-style a la Joan Rivers, and the kind of masochistic self-deprecation that kept Phyllis Diller in face-lifts for two decades. The freshest funnywomen have power smiles, well-toned bodies and social commentary that ticks before it detonates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business Sauce, Satire and Shtick | 11/8/1990 | See Source »

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