Word: ex
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...classically dark Heathers. In Heathers, Winona Ryder falls away from the popular crowd and under the spell of a deranged Christian Slater. Three of the most popular people in their class are murdered while the two are together, a fact that horrifies under who only wanted revenge on her ex-friends, not--gasp!--their deaths...
...Rockets have an entire future wing of the Hall of Fame, but unfortunately, that future is very near. Charles Barkley, 35, who huffs and puffs alongside Hakeem Olajuwon and ex-Bull Scottie Pippen, can tell you what it's like to get old: "I don't think I can have sex three days in a row. Not good sex, anyway." And on that note, Happy Valentine's Day from...
...decided it would be my Christmas present to myself," she says. Now luxe golden waves sweep her shoulder blades, and no one can tell they're not hers. Men swirl around her in clubs, she says, and women follow her into parking lots to gush. She recently saw her ex-husband for the first time in 20 years. "You look so hot!" he marveled--which left her nonplussed. "His wife was right there...
...Family, politics defined personalities. If one's politics went wrong, friendships might die unpleasant deaths. In Ex-Friends: Falling Out with Allen Ginsberg, Lionel and Diana Trilling, Lillian Hellman, Hannah Arendt, and Norman Mailer (Free Press; 244 pages; $25), Podhoretz, 69, has set down a fierce and gossipy record of his expired relationships. His stories amount to a personal diary of American political ideas from the end of World War II to the present...
...ex-friends assembled here, Podhoretz knew Ginsberg the longest, for 50 years, from the time they were students together at Columbia University just after the war. Though Ginsberg's aura toward the end of his life (he died in 1997) suggested Buddhist serenity, Podhoretz remembers him as "arrogant and brash and full of an in-your-face bravado," even a kind of fury. Ginsberg seemed to have a fixation on Podhoretz--possibly because he suspected that Podhoretz had his number as a personality-poet camouflaging mediocrity with an outrageous epater-le-bourgeois program (insanity is sanity; drugs are sacramental; homosexuality...