Word: took
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...city of bright, cogitating mammals. In some respects the sex also made the magazine more genuinely literary. It introduced the same erotic preoccupations and four-letter words that serious books had discovered decades ago. It may have helped that they were placed within a New Yorker that never took its eyes off London. British topics and bylines were everywhere. One of the most clucked-over pieces in any recent issue, a profile of a dominatrix, was the work of a distinguished British resident, Paul Theroux. Maybe sex just seems more estimable in English surroundings...
...very obsession with glamour and celebrity, Brown's magazine was also surprisingly square. The old New Yorker prided itself on resisting hype. Brown, whose mother was once Laurence Olivier's press agent, loves the Next Big Thing without reservation. Her New Yorker took a place at the overcrowded table of weeklies and monthlies already chewing over the same movies and celebrities and titans of industry...
...Fuhrer, it seems, "had a stern father and was unable to establish a healthy relationship to his mother." Auschwitz resulted, you see, from the child Adolf's low self-esteem. A 1981 book published in Germany suggested in all seriousness that when Hitler was a youth, a billy goat took a bite out of his penis. Hence his subsequent career. The famous Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal put it all down to the syphilis he thought Hitler had contracted from a Jewish prostitute. Others said Hitler himself had Jewish blood...
...cocktail." But a study out last week shows that the drug may be useful in treating chronic hepatitis B, a liver disease with more than 300 million sufferers worldwide. In a one-year trial on Chinese patients, viral levels in the blood fell more than 90% for those who took the drug...
Could there be a coup in Moscow? BORIS YELTSIN took the rumor of one seriously enough recently to scramble his top military and security chiefs in a demonstration of strength. "We have sufficient forces to nip in the bud any plans to seize power," he told the commanders--a surprising and rare admission that such a risk might exist. He praised the military and interior forces for their close coordination, and pledged that they--unlike other workers--would be paid on time. (Sources tell TIME that Defense Minister IGOR SERGEYEV had prepared to resign over the government's failure...