Word: paybacks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Maybe it's payback time for having to wear those ears out in public. Mouseketeers, the formerly unassailable icons of wholesomeness, are turning nasty. First a bunch of them filed a complaint against Disney about royalties. Then one of the leaders of that group, DARLENE GILLESPIE, who was so popular as a Mouseketeer that she got to sit next to ANNETTE FUNICELLO in the front row of the photo, was sentenced to three years probation for a ham-fisted department-store theft. Most ignominious of all, BILLIE JEAN MATAY (inset) tried to sue Disney over a theft...
...waves on the Web, making movies in and out of Hollywood, making money, spending money. Slapped with the label Generation X, they've turned the tag into a badge of honor. They are X-citing, X-igent, X-pansive. They're the next big thing. Boomers, beware! It's payback time...
...children were born winners," Jones said. "We're all in this together, so take a deep breath and let it out slowly--we made it. Commencement is our payback...
Bill Clinton's Democrats are giving new meaning to the term political payback by promising to return $2.5 million in foreign-tinged contributions by June 30. It turns out they may not be the only ones to need a refund policy. The Republican Party, quick to condemn Democrats for their foreign connections, now appears to have taken campaign cash from thinly veiled Asian interests in the early 1990s...
Billy Adare, Payback's in-over-his-head hero, is an honest law student who pays his tuition by working summers at the family trade of sandhogging, in a big water tunnel being dug beneath Manhattan. The work is dangerous enough at the best of times, but jostling has broken out between Irish construction thugs from Hell's Kitchen, who by tradition control labor in the tunnel, and Italian heavies hired by management to break the union. At first Billy tries to ride out the skirmishing. Then his elder brother Paddy, a former prizefighter who is an enforcer...