Word: rickie
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shown up at the Supper Club, a party space in Manhattan's theater district. They were mixing with some of the high-concept personalities who have edged into more publicized realms. Like Lady Kier of Deee-Lite! (The recording group, something like the B-52s of house music.) Ricki Lake, the rising talk-show host -- look out, Oprah -- was chatting with John Waters, who starred her in his fondly remembered camp comedy Hairspray. And there was -- yes! -- Shannen Doherty, the Lucrezia Borgia of nighttime TV, the Kilimanjaro of problems, as skinny as Kate Moss these days, chain-smoking...
...lack of diversions. The very notion of 10 years on the downtown scene had led to melancholy reflections about what hip has come to. There was grumbling in the room along the lines of been-there/done-that. And if talk-show hostesses and prime-time starlets are hip -- Ricki Lake? Shannen Doherty? -- then what exactly can hip still mean? "I wish there was a department in the government that would tell people what is cool as far as culture and fashion goes," said one of the guests, Spencer Tunick, a photographer who came to publicize a nude photo shoot...
...Lunch in the White House mess with Ricki Seidman, the President's scheduler...
Senate Republicans could hardly contain their glee as Whitewater appeared to turn into the kind of consuming issue that paralyzes an Administration; 43 G.O.P. members promised that until the Senate banking committee holds hearings on the suspect meetings, they will block the Administration's nomination of Ricki Tigert to head the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. "You're asking for big, big trouble and showing some stunningly bad judgment when you start mixing politics with law enforcement," clucked Senate minority leader Bob Dole...
When they called you to go streaking in the Yard, you were cleaning your bathroom--for the second time this week. You've spent more time watching Ricki Lake and "Can We Shop" than studying for tomorrow's Foreign Cultures exam. You've called everyone you met during Prefrosh, whether they came to Harvard or not, just to catch up. You've vacuumed. And now, with a week and a half until the ephemeral freedom of intersession, you've run out of things...