Word: cowing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...parents absolutely crazy. Singer Perry Farrell's previous band, the Los Angeles-based alternative-rock quartet Jane's Addiction, provided fans with concerts of pagan celebration: their music was bursting with guitar-powered Dionysian frenzy and golden calf-esque imagery (Bored with your lives, children? We've got a cow god for you). The group's final album, Ritual de lo Habitual (1990), featured cover art with full- frontal nudity, a song about kleptomania and an 11-minute rock epic that out-zeppelined Led Zeppelin...
...surprising extent, Western aid appears to be buying resentment. One placard waved by demonstrators in Moscow pictured Yeltsin fatuously caressing a cow labeled RUSSIAN FREEDOM, while an evil-looking Uncle Sam milked dollars from the cow's udder. Russians are irritated that so much Western help seemed to be promised and so little appears to have been delivered. And some are suspicious that foreigners are out to swindle them; they resist making their once powerful country look like a Western clone...
...Eisenhower the student council has been enlisted as a cash cow, generating $1,500 a month in profit from its "market day," which allows fee- paying customers to buy food in bulk through the school. Through an agreement with the local parks authority, new public tennis courts are located on Eisenhower's grounds, where students can easily use them. Public money will pay for their upkeep. Parks officials are also considering a request from Pedersen to donate $5,000 for the school to buy eight computers. In return, Eisenhower would offer computer classes to the general public for a small...
Barr is a closed-in, silent man whose quotes run to "I had it all the way," or "It was just a question of timing." Ask a hawk how it flies. But because Barr is unexplainable, there's a lot of time for lazy, raunchy, cow- flopping baseball talk. Ricky Falls, a black outfielder who plays alongside Barr and is as much of a friend as the phenom can accept, tells most of it. Falls and the rest of his teammates, except for Barr, lead their league in dalliance with the baseball annies who show up in the team hotel...
...press table and asks who wants to participate in the Boys and Girls Club Celebrity Shoot-Out. I wonder what would happen if I offered to do it. I let Mike Dowling do it instead. He and his partner sink 22 free-throws in a minute to tie Dallas Cow-boy quarterback Steve Beuerlein and his partner, who's shooting at the other end. The Boys and girls Club gets some money. Everyone's happy...