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...time. She has passed through so many addictions (to booze and painkillers), through so many rehabs, and subsequent relapses, and re-rehabs, and through so many medical crises (brain tumors, broken backs), all chronicled by the tabloids, that she comes to seem at last to be a gloriously vulgar principle of unsinkability. Each brush with mortality makes her more immortal. Famous in the supermarket racks for being famous--famous for being fat or for getting thinner, famous for death and resurrection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lives of the Unsinkable Liz | 5/8/2000 | See Source »

...time. She has passed through so many addictions (to booze and painkillers), through so many rehabs, and subsequent relapses, and re-rehabs, and through so many medical crises (brain tumor, broken back), all chronicled by the tabloids, that she comes to seem, at last, to be a gloriously vulgar principle of unsinkability. Each brush with mortality makes her more immortal. Famous in the supermarket racks for being famous - famous for being fat, or for getting thinner, famous for death and resurrection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unsinkability — That's Why We Love Liz Taylor | 4/28/2000 | See Source »

...with nary a smile or laugh—about “stealing Bob’s woman.” Huh? As far as I could tell, my blatantly insulting Bob all night—to his face no less—in return for his vulgar and sexist comments was a strong signal that I wanted him. The male ego is indeed a curious thing. Never before had I met a guy so turned on by being dissed...

Author: By Melissa ROSE Langsam, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Body Politics | 4/27/2000 | See Source »

...downside. There's the ketchup candy, for instance. Also, Spaniards have a bothersome habit of throwing fruit at you from their window and yelling "Yankee go home, muddafudda!" (really). But in Stage Two you don't get angry, you get concerned. What about American imperialism has angered these vulgar, fruit-throwing Spaniards? Are they mad we stole Antonio Banderas? Seriously, if you want him back, we can have him packed and shipped in under an hour...

Author: By David A. Fahrenthold, | Title: There's No Place Like home | 4/4/2000 | See Source »

...must force members to take responsibility for their participation in organizations that promote intolerance and perpetuate an out-dated and unacceptable social order. And it is time for non-members on this campus to stop taking part in this system. In particular, the Hasty Pudding should end the vulgar and socially unacceptable tradition of Club Night. Enough is enough...

Author: By David B. Orr, | Title: Poison In the Pudding | 3/3/2000 | See Source »

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