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Inasmuch as Prozac Nation sets out to make broad or generalizable points about the nature of society, the family, youth culture, politics, or whatever, it fails roundly. As the memoir of Wurtzel's troubled coming of age it might have some sort of appeal, if only a prurient and very limited one, especially to those familiar with the Harvard-specific sites of her antics. But even the interest that inheres in a peer's extravagances is undercut by the fact that Wurtzel is neither a good writer nor an appealing individual. She comes off as an irritating, solipsistic brat. Wurtzel...
Congressman Mel Reynolds was indicted on a laundry list of prurient offenses, including the charge he had sex with an underage campaign volunteer. The Chicago Democrat and former Rhodes Scholar faces 19 counts of child pornography, sexual assault, aggravated sexual abuse of a child, obstruction of justice and unlawfully communicating with a witness. Reynolds, who's been under investigation since June, denies all -- and says his now-18-year-old accuser's a lesbian who once practiced Satan worship. The ride can only get wilder, says TIME Chicago reporter Julie Grace, who notes Reynolds is also being chased...
...Vault still exists, but it no longer contains anything of prurient value. Along with the Widener X-cage, it contains "high-risk, high-theft" material, including rare books, old books and "XM" books, which are miniature books a few, inches long. No nudie pictures, though...
...greater scrutiny of our elected officials demands a more sensitive understanding of what constitutes moral and political leadership, and the difference between the two. If we demand to know every piece of dirt about our elected officials' personal lives, we cannot maintain our expectations of moral perfection. In our prurient culture, it is natural for Clinton's sex life to come up now and then, but its relevance to our country's political discourse should...
...tabloid is a newspaper designed for wrapping fish. Before folding in the flounder, some folks read it for prurient gossip about the filthy famous and filthier rich, political scandals, meat-ax murders, baby killers, horse-race results, used-car ads and, now and then, a scoop. It speaks with a cigarette behind its ear and a toothpick in the corner of its mouth. Its headlines are punchy and raunchy: HEADLESS BODY FOUND IN TOPLESS BAR and BEST SEX I EVER HAD. Men read these papers mainly for sporting news. Women prefer tabloids, jokes Mortimer Zuckerman, owner of the New York...