Word: rottenness
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...reunion tour last week, complete with shameless p.r. stunts like an offer to hold a benefit concert for Princess Di. A bit too wrinkled to carry off anarchic rage these days, the Pistols nevertheless do a good impression of greed. "We don't see eye to eye," says Johnny Rotten of his band members. "But we have a common interest: your money...
ADOLF HITLER AND HIS JACKbooted cohort had Horst Wessel and Wagner's Teutonic blood-music to get them in the mood. Former neo-Nazi hooligan Ingo Hasselbach and his Doc Martens--style head bangers had Johnny Rotten and the Sex Pistols...
GLUM AND GLUMMER MOVIES Critics often groan about mindlessly optimistic tripe from Hollywood. But in 1995 many of them found moral instruction, even art, in mindlessly pessimistic tripe--grotty little films about how rotten life is. If it wasn't the self-destructive singer in Georgia, it was a moony, whiny Priest or some horny, joyless Kids. Cheer up, folks; life ain't that bad. Only movies...
GENERAL POWELL WITH HIS HONESTY, sincerity, loyalty and common sense would never fit in or survive in Washington. Why throw a perfectly good apple into a bushel filled with rotten ones? GEORGE S. KULAS Fond du Lac, Wisconsin...
...year-old man with paranoid schizophrenia lies on a table, his eyes closed, listening to the "voice" that has plagued him for more than two years. The voice is relentless, speaking once every 10 seconds or so. "Don't act stupid," it says in a demeaning tone. "Dirty rotten bastard." Each time the man hears the voice, he clicks a button. Scientists, meanwhile, are monitoring his brain activity. Using a special imaging technique called PET scanning, they take series of pictures every 10 minutes. Later, by matching the timing of the button clicks with the snapshots--744 in all--they...