Word: poisoners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...SLOW POISON...
...hotly contested, but the Khmer Rouge, eager to see even indigenous ethnic Vietnamese expelled, are likely to press the issue. As the U.N. troops search for foreign forces, they are supposed to locate and confiscate weapons caches as well. And they must deactivate hundreds of thousands of mines that poison the country's rugged terrain before the 370,000 refugees living in camps along the Thai border can be repatriated. The U.N. mission is also expected to make adequate preparations for that homecoming, although many of the prospective returnees have lived in the camps more than a decade and have...
...flight from Manhattan to Louisiana, Rory Cade recounts a family history that echoes the turbulent events of the '60s. The slow poison of the title is ( booze; it is also the ecstasy of love. Both are the straight stuff that delivers Rory's father to hell. After the mother of his three young daughters dies, he marries Aimee Desiree, a wild Creole beauty half his age. The marriage -- and the faithless Aimee Desiree -- is doomed. She meets her fate at 3 a.m. in a white Thunderbird hurtling along a narrow causeway across Lake Pontchartrain. The daughters never hear their father...
...whose ravings have earned him comparisons to Hitler. As chairman of the deceptively named Liberal-Democratic Party, Zhirinovsky campaigned on a platform mixing promises of cheaper vodka with blatant xenophobia to place a surprising third in the Russian presidential election won by Yeltsin last June. He has threatened to poison the newly independent Baltic peoples with nuclear waste and vows to expand Russian territory by force. Though his fanaticism has made him mainly a vulgar curiosity, some observers fear he may be a forerunner of politicians to come. Says Lev Timofeyev, a market-oriented economist: "A person with a program...