Word: formerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Charlie is hauled into PlannersBanc for a humiliating session known as a "workout." What follows is probably the most riveting fictional scene ever set in a bank conference room, although the competition is admittedly scarce. From his former status as one of PlannersBanc's most-courted customers, Charlie has fallen to the level of "s___head," an arrogant deadbeat who must be bullied out of his profligate habits and set on the course of fiscal prudence. As a grudging sop to the ravenous bankers, Charlie decrees a 15% cut in the work force of another of his enterprises, Croker Global...
Alanis Morissette's new CD, Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie, is her second shot at putting out a good second album. Her 1991 debut, the dance-pop album Alanis, which featured such lyrics as "You're just a party party party boy," brought her modest renown, mostly in her native Canada and mostly (one presumes) among people there who don't read lyric sheets. After her uninspired 1992 follow-up, Now Is the Time, which included a wistful song about standing in the rain outside a Rod Stewart concert, her career stalled. But Morissette's third album, Jagged Little Pill...
...Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie is Morissette's follow-up to her big success. It's not a great album, but it's a greatly ambitious one. After the big splash of Jagged Little Pill, Morissette slipped into a blind spot of the public's eye. She went to India; she tested her physical limits in a triathlon; she passed on interviews. When she re-entered the studio earlier this year, she had more on her mind and much more to say; the songs on her new CD deal with such issues as false gurus and abusive relationships...
DIED. RUTH BRINE, 78, ebullient former senior editor of TIME; in New York City. Brine, an Iowa native who grew up skating on the Mississippi, opted in 1945 to begin her career at TIME rather than Newsweek because of its proximity to Rockefeller Center's skating rink. During her four-decade career, she interviewed such icons as Pablo Picasso and Maria Callas and conceived cover stories on women, crime and the elderly...
...that he's a candidate for Governor of Minnesota, Ventura, 47, has hung up his boa and no longer espouses cheating. But to the state's Democrats and Republicans, the former wrestler, actor and radio shock jock is still playing the bad guy. Most observers had considered Ventura's shoestring Reform Party campaign an entertaining sideshow to the main event. Then a new poll in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune showed him with an impressive 21% of the vote--double what he had had a month before and within striking distance of his two major rivals. Gnarled in a statistical headlock...