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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bastard Demon and whorish Lampoon...

Author: By Ethan G. Drogin, | Title: "Comp The Crimson" | 4/3/1997 | See Source »

Newspapers screamed. The Pompeii Times: "Julius Caesar killed, Millions Mourn." The Roman Globe: "Nation Shocked by Brutal Deed; Best Friend Brutus Implicated as Well." The Empire Enquirer: "Aliens Possess Caesar, Senate Gores Demon to Death...

Author: By Tanya Dutta, | Title: BEWARE THE IDES OF MARCH | 3/15/1997 | See Source »

...past year, Reebok has been selling a women's running shoe with a name--Incubus--that inspires fear rather than fleetness. Incubus is a mythical demon that rapes sleeping women. Reebok says no one has complained; in fact, the shoe has sold better than expected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Mar. 3, 1997 | 3/3/1997 | See Source »

David Letterman wasn't cut out for the Crimson comp, so we at Dartboard sent him over to Demon. (He wouldn't bother to be seen over that Bow St. social organization which occasionally publishes a not-so-humorous humor magazine.) But since Letterman's not writing for Dartboard, we had to make our own top-nine list of columns we could have written but didn...

Author: By Adam J. Levitin, | Title: COLUMNS WE COULD HAVE WRITTEN, BUT DIDN'T | 2/22/1997 | See Source »

...suddenly swept into an epileptic seizure. He goes stiff; his eyes roll up; his jaw is clenched. Except for his piglet squeals, he might have been dead for a minute or two. Children during grand mal attacks seem possessed; in the New Testament, epilepsy is referred to as a "demon." So the mother of an epileptic boy first looks at doctors as exorcists. But as she sees them prescribe a series of harsh medications, each creating side effects that the next is supposed to treat, she wonders if they aren't sadists--and if they know of a potential cure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: DOING WELL AT DOING GOOD | 2/17/1997 | See Source »

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