Word: reno
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Reno, born Karen Renaud, is one of the women who pulls, pummels and stretches comedy into the field of performance art. The tornado with dark roots asks, "Remember when safe sex meant doing it when your parents were out of town...
...libs about 30% every night. When she was too broke to redeem her outfits from the dry cleaner's, she included the angst in her monologue: "It's like, the clothes are in jail. I go in every so often and say, 'Could I just see the pants?' " Reno goes directly to the Supreme Court and for the jugular. On the abortion ruling: "Soon a cop will be at the door saying, 'So, I hear you had a miscarriage. Prove...
...while last week, it looked like a nice way to reduce the deficit. After a lengthy tax dispute, the Federal Government seized the Mustang Ranch near Reno, the state's most venerable house of legal prostitution. U.S. bankruptcy trustees were aiming to operate the place themselves until they could find a buyer. The IRS says owner Joe Conforte owes $13 million in back taxes. The big bordello -- more than 100 rooms on 360 acres -- could indeed have been a moneymaking proposition for the government. A prospectus showed 1986 revenues of $5.6 million. But late last week a bankruptcy judge nixed...
After graduating, Souter returned home to Weare, N.H., and took a job at Orr & Reno, a Concord law firm. But he was not happy in private practice. In 1968 he took the turn in the road that would eventually land him in the White House chatting with the President, by joining the New Hampshire attorney general's staff. Shortly after Warren Rudman became state attorney general in 1970, he plucked Souter from a group of assistants to become his top aide. The thoroughly scholarly Souter soon became the perfect complement to the gregarious, politically wired Rudman. The two, along with...
...rest of his days: that he and his friend were driven by the lyrics of Judas Priest. "All of a sudden," he said, "we got a suicide message, and we got tired of life." Last week his family and Belknap's mother brought that eerie charge to trial in Reno. Four of the five members of Judas Priest, who perform in metal mesh and studded leather, sat at the defendants' table dressed in business suits and heard themselves accused of murderous "mind control." Said guitarist Glenn Tipton in an interview: "We were shocked. Nothing in the album says...