Word: rags
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their Landsdowne Street Birthday Party, they said no problem, and somehow, even knew how to spell my name (unlike the Crimson). And when they asked me if they should give a pass to some Harvard journal called The Perspective, I told them it was just a pansy-Commie rag not worth the paper it's printed on. No wonder I didn't see Jesse Furman around...
Speaking of "the Man," Steve Tyler was also in top form. During a particularly spirited rendition of "Rag Doll," he seemed hard put to keep from flinging himself into the audience. And by the time the band ripped through the inspired "Sweet Emotion," he simply gave in to his instincts and waded...
...Reagan years: Seagal as a from-nowhere star in his first movie (Above the Law), Spy as the hipper-than-thou champion of attitude journalism. Both like to make fun of short people. Both offered sleek twists on tired genres: Seagal the martial-arts movie, Spy the glossy gossip rag. Both are deeply indebted to Creative Artists Agency boss Michael Ovitz, who is Seagal's movie mentor and Spy's eternal obsession. And both have sturdy Time Warner credentials: Seagal as one of Warner Bros.' most reliable moneymakers (Hard to Kill, Under Siege) and Spy as a publication founded...
...content of 'the rag' has also been highly controversial. The first issue included a personal story of date rape that Allen says she and others worried would have negative repercussions for the woman who wrote it. The actual result, she says, was that in the next issue they were overwhelmed by people wanting to write about having been abused...
Allen speaks of 'the rag' in the past tense. Despite one controversial issue, none of the people involved with the rag will be here next year and Allen predicts the magazine's demise. Nevertheless, she is quite proud of it, calling it "a great feminist experiment...