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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...BOOK/AUTHOR] MEMOIRS OF HADRIAN, Marguerite Yourcenar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reading Matters | 9/6/1999 | See Source »

...Bodines aren't the mediocre BoDeans WFNX plays--but that's another story.) Another Smiths similarity: Edwyn's sinuous vocals, which mixed a shy whiteboy coyness with the tricks and glides he'd learned from American Motown records, were hardly the most "masculine" singing to be heard north of Hadrian's Wall...

Author: By Steve L. Burt, | Title: Citrus and Paradise | 12/2/1993 | See Source »

...random polymorphous perversity, it would be hard to top The Twelve Caesars by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (born circa A.D. 69). A classic capital insider, Suetonius served as chief secretary to the Emperor Hadrian and wrote a number of books that certainly sound like best sellers, most of them, unfortunately, now lost. Connoisseurs of the carnal particularly lament the disappearance of his Lives of Famous Whores. But The Twelve Caesars still packs plenty of punch per sesterce: Augustus as an elderly man, relentlessly deflowering virgins, some of them procured for him by his wife; Tiberius training young boys, whom he dubbed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pssst! Have You Heard the One About Augustus? | 4/22/1991 | See Source »

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