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Word: scepters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...feel victorious, although no one has handed me a crown with a scepter or an Academy Award," Barrett says with a laugh...

Author: By Melissa Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Barrett Outlines Political Vision for State, Nation | 6/4/1992 | See Source »

With Medellin's drug dons behind bars, the scepter passes to the Cali cartel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 7/1/1991 | See Source »

...freshening up for contemporary consumption. A.E. Hotchner, whose previous forays into biography have included volumes about Ernest Hemingway, Doris Day and Sophia Loren, is clearly no rock fan. He dismisses Jagger as "a ruler with no queen, no jester, no kingdom, just an egocentric bitch king with a neon scepter sitting on a hollow throne." But Hotchner does display a certain amount of commercial calculation, no doubt having sized up the sales receipts of rock butcher Albert Goldman's biographies of Elvis and John Lennon, and he comes up with his own cash-register kicker: Brian Jones was murdered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bummer BLOWN AWAY: THE ROLLING STONES AND THE DEATH OF THE 60s | 11/5/1990 | See Source »

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