Word: psycho
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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VIOLENT FEMMES: WHY DO BIRDS SING? (Slash/Reprise). Ornery, typically strange and downright swell. When these three tie into a song like Life Is a Scream, they make the inside of your head sing like Janet Leigh in her Psycho shower...
...Hollywood, dying is hard but comedy is easy. The original Saturday Night Live wires have frayed lately, but Bill Murray will open the season with this week's psycho farce, What About Bob? Billy Crystal will dude it up out West in City Slickers, Martin Short will bank on Pure Luck, and John Candy will go Delirious. The easiest hit to pick is a farce sequel, The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear...
Everyone knows, more than they would like perhaps, about the nature, the publishing history and the unspeakable horrors of Bret Easton Ellis' new novel, American Psycho. However broadly it seeks to indict, in indelible, blood-red ink, the excesses and depravities of the degenerate '80s, the book has certainly raised a threshold of taste, or psychic pain, much higher than most readers would like (much as the smash movie The Silence of the Lambs exposes even toddlers to a level of psychological violence that would have been unthinkable -- or at least less powerful -- some years ago). A protagonist who eats...
CHICAGO LOOP by Paul Theroux (Random House; 196 pages; $20). With a lot more gore and a lot less talent, this novel could have shared some of the uproar that has descended on Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho. Here is a wealthy, morally rudderless white male stalking through a city, in this case Chicago, looking for trouble. Parker Jagoda, a successful real estate developer, has a child in the northern suburb of Evanston and a sleek, sophisticated wife who works as a professional model and periodically arranges to meet him in hotels for ritualized bouts of fantasy sex. Still, Parker...
Everybody knows about Currier. Far, far, far away from the Yard and the Square, Currier is the Mower of the House system. Ugly as sin, it's the Mather of the Quad. Chock full of psycho-singles, it's the mental ward of the College...