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...their self-titled debut album comprising eleven standard metal tracks, the Electric Love Hogs at first gain the listener's acceptance with the satisfying familiarity of their music and thought. the Hogs shamelessly thrive on the influences of commercial heavy metal forerunners such as Motley Crue, Ozzy Osbourne and Poison...

Author: By Daniel J. Sharfstein, | Title: Buffalos and Hogs: A musical Menagerie | 4/16/1992 | See Source »

...marketing theme, which includes coffin-shaped packaging, is designed to encourage young drinkers. The brand's U.S. wholesaler, Cabo Distributing, denies targeting minors. But the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, with exquisite literalness, is blocking the liquor on grounds of misleading advertising, since the brand seems to promise poison and plague but delivers only vodka...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Liquor: Name Your Poison | 4/13/1992 | See Source »

Sandi: And that was the first AIDS story that got told, that's what sells in the mainstream. It's the independents who are dealing with original subject matter, and they are finally getting some attention: Paris Is Burning, My Own Private Idaho, Poison; there has been a gay film boom...

Author: By Vineeta Vijayaraghavan, | Title: Reel Queer Premieres | 4/9/1992 | See Source »

...elected leaders have decided to use the bully pulpit to encourage private charity. As a taxpayer, I don't even mind seeing a few of my dollars going to pay for the propaganda. The trouble is that these $ same elected leaders have used the same bully pulpit to poison the minds of citizens against the mechanism of selflessness and social generosity that is at these leaders' actual disposal: the government. A free society deciding to tax itself to make itself a better society -- that's the real united...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Charity | 4/6/1992 | See Source »

...twentysomething generation. At a Nashville concert by country hunk Alan Jackson, Brandi Byrd, 19, arrived with her hair teased into a punk sculpture, wearing a replica of an artfully threadbare Aerosmith outfit. At home she puts her Jackson and Brooks tapes alongside the work of groups like Whitesnake, Poison and Motley Crue. Says Julie Hall, a 23-year-old clerk at TNN: "I'm just as likely to buy the Black Crowes as I am to buy a Travis Tritt tape. I like good music. I don't care what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Country Rocks | 3/30/1992 | See Source »

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