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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Graphic Calculators...

Author: By Toyia R. Battle, | Title: Math Switches Calculus Focus | 11/14/1990 | See Source »

Many readers will not have the stomach to get past the middle. By that time, the novel's narrator, Patrick Bateman, is in full graphic babble about his adventures as a serial killer. With knife and pistol, he dispatches pets, children, high-fashion colleagues and ragged beggars. These are only warm-ups for what the M.B.A. monster does to women with nail gun, power drill, chain saw and, in a scene that should cause the loudest uproar, a hungry rodent. Those who are interested in the gobbets can exercise their rights as free American consumers early next year -- that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Revolting Development | 10/29/1990 | See Source »

Helms singled out the Mapplethorpe exhibit, "The Perfect Moment," for its sexually graphic photographs and nude children...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEA Rejects Grant for Boston Exhibit | 10/23/1990 | See Source »

...word "anal" gratuitously to describe people whom, at a normal school, would be described as "uptight." Unlike the typical Harvard student, I do not feel the need to demonstrate a facile knowledge of Freudian psychoanalytic theory at every possible opportunity by making a disturbingly graphic comparison between someone's behavior and a bodily orifice...

Author: By Brian D. Reich, | Title: I Will Be Class Marshal | 10/1/1990 | See Source »

...departure may have been the result of a coup staged by his handpicked No. 2 man, Tommy Mottola, according to industry speculation, though no successor has been named. Another possible catalyst for Yetnikoff's resignation is his depiction in Fredric Dannen's new best seller, Hit Men, a graphic portrayal of the music industry's seamy underside. In the book, Yetnikoff comes off as a crude, tantrum-throwing and philandering egomaniac. "He's a brilliant man with a strong self-destructive streak," contends Dannen. Says David Braun, a top music lawyer in Los Angeles: "Walter got lost in the fantasy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Music King's Shattering Fall | 9/17/1990 | See Source »

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