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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...used special effects. Behind the central couch, a different framed print hangs for each of the six scenes, each time keyed to the particular mood of the scene. The well-chosen prints ranged from Warhol's iconic Campbell's Soup can to a Chagall print to Munch's The Scream. Another striking feature of the set was a medicine chest in which Kitty keeps her "blue wonder drug"--actually blue M&M's--as she nicknames the poison gas pills. Smoke billows out from the eerily lit medicine cabinet at the end of the fifth scene and creepily snakes...

Author: By Mary-beth A. Muchmore, | Title: Problems with the Neighbors, Neighbors with Problems | 4/10/1997 | See Source »

...Harvard experience is preppy, snooty and New Englandy, few will miss it. But we should all graduate with some sense of having gone to the same institution, having shared some of the same memories, having more in common than having gone to the Harvard-Yale game and the Primal Scream...

Author: By Ethan M. Tucker, | Title: The Bottom Line | 4/10/1997 | See Source »

...Cuba Gooding Sr. was in rehearsal for a gig on the Sunset Strip. Lead singer of the '70s group Main Ingredient, Gooding still performs in clubs and theaters. He says that in Harlem, where he was born, "your manhood was proved by your ability to make either the women scream or the men run. I was good at making women scream by singing." After the 1972 Everybody Plays the Fool went gold, Gooding moved his family to California and was a Motown solo artist from 1978 until 1983. He and his wife Shirley were divorced for 15 years--"We were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Apr. 7, 1997 | 4/7/1997 | See Source »

Harrison's preacher father was kicked out of the house by her mother and grandparents when she was tiny, and she had almost no contact with him until she was 20. The household was grim. Grandmother would scream like a "scalded infant"; mother, who lived elsewhere most of the time, beat her daughter with a hairbrush. The child herself was unlikable. There is an unintentionally risible passage where she pries open the eyes of newborn kittens. The teenage years are marked by anorexia ("the dizzy rapture of starving") and bulimia ("I never taste what I eat. Sometimes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: TABOO TIME | 3/10/1997 | See Source »

...songs, including Tourniquet (which is getting steady play on MTV), wallow in nightmarish, frequently X-rated scenarios of occultism, suicide, torture, greed and mindless celebrity worship. "I'm so all-American I'd sell you suicide," Manson snarls over the sound of jackhammering drums and the buzz-saw scream of guitars. Manson, whose real name is Brian Warner, and his group have all adopted names of celebrity idols and serial killers. The keyboardist calls himself Madonna Wayne Gacy; the bassist, Twiggy Ramirez...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: SATAN'S LITTLE HELPERS | 2/24/1997 | See Source »

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