Word: susane
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...raunchiest fictional cops, detectives and villains are women, has become a delicate exercise in sexual politics. We can imagine Spenser, Robert B. Parker's tough-guy hero, paging through a thriller one evening, log fire burning and six-pack of Sam Adams at the ready, when his girlfriend Susan Silverman senses trouble. She speaks: "You're looking all choked up and strange, Slugger." He explains sheepishly that he is reading a detective story. "Yes ... ?" "Well, so there's this wounded guy, and suddenly the detective whips off, um, her panty hose and makes a tourniquet to stop the bleeding." Spenser...
...show whose creators are unafraid to parade their erudition. MST3K, which is incorporated under the apt moniker Best Brains, Inc., is for snobs and slackers -- a crash course in popular culture, high and low. Pay attention, for without warning or footnoting you may hear allusions to Thomas Pynchon, Susan Faludi, Joseph Campbell, Jenny Holzer, Andrew Sarris or Anna Kisselgoff. A starlet bathing in a lake suggests "Fanne Foxe in a Maxfield Parrish painting." And don't worry if some of the names are obscure to you. Nobody, including the writers, gets every reference...
COPY CHIEF: Susan L. Blair PRODUCTION MANAGER: Gail Music...
ASSISTANT EDITORS: Ursula Nadasdy de Gallo, Andrea Dorfman, Brigid O'Hara-Forster, William Tynan, Sidney Urquhart, Jane Van Tassel (Department Heads); Bernard Baumohl, David Bjerklie, Val Castronovo, Georgia Harbison, Ratu Kamlani, Sue Raffety, Susan M. Reed, Elizabeth Rudulph, Susanne Washburn, Linda Young...
...suprise in the meet was freshman Susan Ranere. Ranere was voted the top junior player in Massachusetts as a high school senior last year. She placed 21st overall in her first collegiate meet...