Word: viper
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spate of spoken-word spots on MTV, pop culture seems to have forsaken poetry altogether. Which makes us wonder, can a nationwide publicity blitz sway today's younger readers? What America really needs now is Courtney Love, wearing a diaphanous nightie, reading Czeslaw Milosz from the roof of the Viper Club. Now that would be something...
...year-old Savage, whose real name isRandy Poffo, arrived for the event in a silverDodge Viper, dressed in a black leather jacket,spandex pants and a t-shirt with the word"MADNESS" emblazoned...
...boss is not just any boss. He is Roy Cohn (Jim Augustine '01), the infamous legal viper who had close personalties to Joseph McCarthy and who helped ensure the death penalty for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Kushner's Cohn hates himself as venomously as he does everyone else. When his doctor of thirty years (Lisa Nosal '98) diagnoses him with AIDS, Cohn thunders back that "AIDS is what homosexuals have! I have liver cancer...
...book aims to determine whether or not the placebo is "much ado about nothing"; co-authors Arthur Shapiro and his wife Elaine present the reader with a flurry of esoteric yet entertaining historical tidbits. Though the knowledge that the 17th-century drug called "Vigo's plaster" was made of viper's flesh, live frogs, and worms may not necessarily be the best conversation-starter, such detail paints an elaborate portrait of the blind, haphazard healing practices of prescientific medics at which even the least scientifically-inclined person can gasp and chuckle...
...through the tabloid life of our times. This guy is best known to the general public for trashing a hotel room a couple of years ago and getting busted for it, for his long-running liaison with supersvelte supermodel Kate Moss and for his proprietorship of the menacingly named Viper Room, the determinedly grungy rock club on Sunset Blvd. outside of which River Phoenix succumbed to a final overdose. What the public does not know is that this character is largely the figment of our gossip-debased collective unconscious...