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Word: turner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this success is nice for McMahon and Turner, but what about Western civilization? The biggest concern is the popularity of pro wrestling among children. McMahon has a point when he says that wrestling is less violent and sexually suggestive than much of pop culture; still, it is jarring to go to a wrestling event and see boys so young that they must be taken to the men's room by their fathers. Another worry is the use of drugs. Steroids aren't as prevalent as they once were, but the abuse of painkillers has become a problem. WCW says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Lords Of The Ring | 6/29/1998 | See Source »

...Jasper for generations. A member of Byrd's extended family had worked as a babysitter for a relative of King's. And yet, if what Berry told police is accurate, his friend King was openly hostile to Byrd and, while beating him, allegedly said he was "starting The Turner Diaries early," a reference to the antigovernment-conspiracy novel that is a must-read for white supremacists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beneath The Surface | 6/22/1998 | See Source »

Carmen is a tattooed nightclub singer in a Tina Turner wig who smuggles Uzis after hours. Escamillo, her bullfighting boyfriend, looks as if he's been getting fashion tips from Wayne Newton's tailor. The orchestra is seated onstage, midway between five video screens and six hydraulic lifts; the conductor wears a leather vest, and the director's credits include a stint as Mick Jagger's choreographer. And everybody is miked, from the tenor to the timpani player...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Carmen, the MTV Diva | 6/22/1998 | See Source »

Hancock, a Lowell House resident, is not the first woman from Lowell House to be Miss Massachusetts. Marcia M. Turner '97 was Miss Massachusetts...

Author: By Gregory S. Krauss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hancock '00 Garners Miss Massachusetts | 6/19/1998 | See Source »

...foreword to the catalog claims that it is "possible to admire Edward Burne-Jones as the greatest British artist of the 19th century, after Turner and perhaps John Constable." One may demur at this, but the show is bound to be a smash hit with the American public, not just because it is full of the yearning sentimentality that has flooded into real life today--for there is a connection between Burne-Jones' semisacrificial English virgins, each one a Flower Beneath the Foot, and the emetically mawkish victim-cult of the late Princess Diana--but because its artfulness evokes intense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: An Escapist's Dreamworld | 6/15/1998 | See Source »

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