Word: rasputin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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First, Prince Yusupov and the others fed poisoned cakes and wine to Rasputin. The Czarina's dissolute monk seemed to thrive on them. He called for more wine and went on with the party...
Next, the conspirators shot the starets a few times, and that slowed him down. He was still alive, but less chipper. Assassination as low comedy: now they doggedly carried Rasputin out to the frozen Neva and shoved him through a hole in the ice. He kept bobbing to the surface...
...like to think that Rasputin stayed dead for a half-century and then, irrepressible, achieved reincarnation, not as one person this time, but as an entire decade--the '60s. This expansive metaphysics would have allowed him to show off all his facets: as holy man and party boy, as faith healer, sexual omnivore, purveyor of mystic salvations and bogus profundities, enemy of soap, hairy narcissist...
...poster-ripping, politicking Rasputin portrayed by the Crimson during the last two weeks bears little resemblance to the Rudd Coffey we know and respect...
...rival to the Clinton plan in Congress. With this in mind, Clinton will speak at the DLC's annual conference on Friday. It may be a tough sell: DLC president Al From has privately criticized the Clinton plan and said Ira Magaziner, the White Houses health guru, has a "Rasputin-like hold" on the President and Mrs. Clinton...