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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...display throughout the album. He and guest singer Michael Monroe (formerly of the band Hanoi Rocks) take the Dead Boys' 1978 tribute to nihilism, Ain't It Fun, and reinvent it as a duet, infusing the song with new energy through the interplay of their voices. "I punch my fist right through the glass," they sing together. "I didn't even feel it, it hurt me so bad. Such fun. Such fun." Rose also performs a passionate rendition of Since I Don't Have You, a pop classic by the '50s vocal group the Skyliners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gunners Take Aim At Punk | 12/6/1993 | See Source »

...Brien," says Schlup. "The only thing I've been able to do about my life before this was drugs. I just figured I was going to die in here." He adds, haltingly, "I don't want to die." He closes his eyes and presses the back of a tatooed fist against his quivering mouth to compose himself. "I just hope that things will turn out all right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Invitation to an Execution | 11/22/1993 | See Source »

Trying to reverse this trend, Clinton struck notes ranging from passionate to pleading. Presenting the bill at a ceremony in Statuary Hall at the Capitol, Clinton began waving his arms and banging the lectern, first with a forefinger and then with a fist, as he slid into an ad-lib riff on the necessity for reform: the U.S., he cried, is "choking on a health-care system that -- is -- not -- working." The day after, in a speech to medical students and professors at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Clinton sounded oddly supplicating: "Please help us," he implored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Please Help Us | 11/8/1993 | See Source »

...Bowe, now 26, has the potential to be one of boxing's greatest. Standing 6 ft. 5 in. and weighing about 240 lbs. when he's in fighting trim, he towers over most competitors. He has a quick jab, a good hook and knockout power in each large fist. And while he can't dance the way Ali could, he moves with agility for a big man. "Many have compared me to the Greatest: Ali," he says. "But I hit like a truck. He just stung like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like...Ali: RIDDICK BOWE | 11/8/1993 | See Source »

Strauss returned the letter, writing that inthe aforementioned 15-year period, a number ofcontinuing and escalating incidents including"extreme sexual harassment of students andemployees, public group sex activity, fist fights,arson and continual, extensive vandalism in themen's room," prompted the removal of the doors...

Author: By Manlio A. Goetzl, | Title: Bathroom Goes Private | 10/1/1993 | See Source »

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