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Let it breed? By Cintra Wilson
Life, that ruthless old jester, gives me a jab in the womb
(12/16/97)

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Flexed to death: Americans are addicted to stimulating themselves -- sometimes to death
(12/02/97)

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I got some news: I'm getting married
(11/18/97)

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Dripping Fawcett: After her hideous soft-core debut, it's clear that Farrah Fawcett needs to take some lessons from Mr. Cheese, Burt Reynolds, in the art of American Redemption
(11/04/97)

My cash ain't nothing but trash By Cintra Wilson
The author's parents left her a legacy whose worth cannot be measured in vulgar coin: a terminally ludicrous relation to money
(10/27/97)

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Wuthering bites: Knowing too much about love lets the air out of the romantic balloon
(10/07/97)

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Tyranny is a supermodel in Nike crosstrainers
(09/23/97)

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Why artists should not be allowed out in public: of writers who won't shut up, aging, flat-assed ballet teachers, little dancy-girls who waddle around like quail and other horrors
(07/29/97)

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Fear and self-medicating in L.A.
(07/15/97)

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A wedding in Astoria, Queens! and other heartwarming works by Hieronymus Bosch
(07/01/97)

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Babies who stink
(06/17/97)

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Confessions of a weekend yoga-ranch lesbian
(06/03/97)

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N.Y. performers' credo: Look at my deformed penis!
(04/22/97)

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Ike Turner e-mailed me -- and he's pissed!
(04/08/97)

Oscar Post-Mortem By Cintra Wilson
The 69th Oscars: The dowdy, the disabled and the Devil
(03/25/97)

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Breaking up is fun to do: Getting rid of Boy Strange
(03/11/97)

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Love songs from the dead
(02/25/97)

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The unbearable cuteness of heroin
(2/11/97)

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Eat this shit and you'll be Americanized: life in the world's most surreal nation
(1/27/97)

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Hollywood's Wailing Uterus. Grand mal meltdowns, preferrably naked, are the latest craze for Hollywood actresses
(1/13/97)

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Tickling Elmo until he bleeds cash from both googly eyes
(12/23/96)

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Relearning to brainwash our nation's youth
(12/2/96)

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For marriage to work, the two contenders should be psychic animals of the same size, weight and tolerance for blood
(11/18/96)

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A razor in the Big Apple: Halloween, Cintra style
(11/4/96)

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Brit Eddie Izzard is proof that a chubby transvestite comic can be real and true and good — but never successful in America
(10/21/96)

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The proper care and feeding of a New York celebrity
(9/23/96)

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Our columnist descends into the bottomless flaming pit at an Ike Turner concert
(9/9/96)

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Our columnist visits Action Park and prophesies an amusement apocalypse
(8/26/96)

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Our columnist explains why Olympic women's gymnastics are worse than veal
(8/5/96)

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Mexico City Blues. South of the border, our sundress-clad columnist finds feral mariachis and the luck of the drunk
(7/22/96)

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Our columnist proposes her own version of the "sexiest man alive" contest -- scary-legit and street-credible cool
(7/8/96)

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At New York's Museum of Modern Art, Picasso inspires an idiot epiphany
(6/24/96)

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Key sartorial advice: White is the new black. Keep it to yourself
(6/10/96)

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In memoriam. She could never imagine life without him. Now he's gone
(5/27/96)

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Our columnist sacks Iceland in a vain quest for Nordic rummage
(5/13/96)

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They were pulsing with female hormones. But The Squeezebox might not have been the best place to take their manhunt
(4/29/96)

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Laugh, Laugh, I Thought I'd Die: A brief trip to an "alternative" comedy club convinces our heroine that certain psyches should never disrobe in public
(4/6/96)

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The Beautiful and the Damned: Spiritualists of the Lower East Side
(3/23/96)

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Childbirth: A Barbarian Absurdity That Must be Eliminated
(3/9/96)

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Our City Kicks Your City's Ass. New York newbie Cintra Wilson turns treacherously on her former home, L.A.
(2/24/96)

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Happy Valentine's Day -- now shut up and dig your trench. Cintra Wilson on breaking up
(2/10/96)

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Desirous of improving her bank account, Cintra Wilson, a.k.a Frankenhooker, attempts to write for Mademoiselle magazine. Bad things happen
(1/27/96)

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Cintra Wilson investigates the bogus Freemason footwear conspiracy and concludes that Satan don't wear clunky shoes
(1/13/96)

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Cintra Wilson withstands the onslaught of gyrating velour robot animals in a nightmarish trip to Disney's Magic Kingdom
(12/2/95)

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Cintra Wilson bravely ventures into the land of chemically-assisted living, only to discover that the entire adult population of Los Angeles is already there
(11/20/95)













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