SportsCenter (TV series), 18
Sports Illustrated, 16, 171
Springsteen, Bruce, 27–28, 29
Stalin, Joseph, 189–91
“Stand” (R.E.M.), 30
Starr, Kenneth, 115, 121–22, 125, 126, 128
Starr Report, 109
Star Wars film series, 6–7, 140
steroids, 197–98
Sting, The (film), 42
Stingley, Darryl, 101–02
Stinson, Bob, 32
Stone, Sharon, 110–11, 113, 129
Straight Outta Compton (N.W.A), 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 104–05
“Suicide Solution” (Osbourne), 156
“Sultans of Swing” (Dire Straits), 29
Sunan Abu Dawud (Muhammad), 55
Super Bowl, 95, 97, 98
“Sweet Lew” (Pearl Jam), 172–73
Swift, Taylor, 35–37
“Take It Easy” (Eagles), 23–24, 26
Tangents Within a Framework (Page), 159
Tarantino, Quentin, 87, 149
Tatum, Jack, 101–02
Taylor, James, 150
television series
drug dealers portrayed in, 47–50
public opinion on quality of, 46–47
See also specific series and networks
terrorist attacks (9/11/2001), 55–56, 161
Texas Rangers, 195
Thelema religion, 158
They Call Me Assassin (Tatum), 102
They Still Call Me Assassin (Tatum), 102
Thicke, Alan, 28
Thomson, Judith Jarvis, 146
“Thrilla in Manila” (Ali-Frazier fight, 1971), 51, 52
Time (magazine), 197
Tone Lōc, 93
Torre, Joe, 197
Tosh, Daniel, 83
To the Limit (Eliot), 25
Tramell, Catherine (fictional character, Basic Instinct), 111–12
Travolta, John, 80
Tripp, Linda, 115, 121–22, 125, 126
Tuchman, Gary, 55
Turner, Kathleen, 112
TV Guide, 46
Twilight (film), 194
Twitter, 60, 160, 161, 163
2 Live Crew, 78
Tyson, Mike, 60
Ugly Betty (TV series), 193
“Under My Thumb” (Rolling Stones), 150
“Under the Bridge” (Red Hot Chili Peppers), 30
Under the Gaslight (play), 10
Untergang, Der (film), 193
Urban Outfitters, 33
USA Today, 195
USFL, 98
US Weekly, 36
U2, 33
Vader, Darth (character, Star Wars), 7
Van Halen, 28–29
“veil of ignorance” concept, 4
Verducci, Tom, 197
Verhoeven, Paul, 111
Very Best of the Eagles, The (CD), 26
VH1, 134
Vietcong, 54
Vietnam War, 52, 108, 145
vigilantism
Death Wish (film) and, 66–69
Goetz’s subway attack and, 60, 63–66, 73–75
Village Voice, 60
villains and villainy
Ali-Frazier boxing matches and, 50–54
Assange and WikiLeaks and, 143–45
Clinton’s affair and, 114–15, 125–27
con artists as, 42–43
D. B. Cooper’s airplane hijacking and, 40–42, 54–55, 56–57
Death Wish (film) and, 66–69
drug dealers in television shows and, 47–50
Goetz’s subway vigilantism and, 61–66
hip-hop music and, 91–92
Keith Richards’s drug arrest and, 39–40
Machiavelli on rulers and power and, 11–14
Paterno’s behavior during career in college football and, 14–18
politicians and, 19–21
Purple Rain’s protagonist and, 44–46
serial killers and, 116–19
Snidely Whiplash in Rocky and Bullwinkle and, 11
storyline of a woman tied to the railroad tracks and, 9–11
Virgil, 17
Vitello, Paul, 81–82
von Braun, Wernher, 187
von Bülow, Claus, 168
von Trier, Lars, 98–100
Wall, The (Pink Floyd), 31
Wallace, David Foster, 199
Walsh, Joe, 25
Walton, Bill, 171
WarGames (film), 143
Warner Bros., 26, 29, 44
Washington Post, 122
Wayne, Bruce (fictional character, Batman series), 69–70, 73
“We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” (Swift), 37
Weeds (TV series), 47
Wells, H. G., 133
Wenner, Jann, 109
West, Adam, 61
West, Jerry, 124
West, Kanye, 36
Whiplash, Snidely (cartoon character), 11
White, Walter, 48, 50
White Men Can’t Jump (film), 42–43
Whitewater controversy, 122
Whitman, Walt, 121
Wiccan religion, 158
WikiLeaks, 143–47
Wilde, Oscar, 157
Williams, Katt, 83
Williams, Robin, 152
Wilson, Woodrow, 131
Winfrey, Oprah, 128
Winner, Michael, 66
Wire, The (film), 48
“Witchy Woman” (Eagles), 37
“With God on Our Side” (Dylan), 186–89
World Trade Center attack (September 11, 2001), 55–56, 161
World War II, 99, 119, 157, 185
WWE wrestling matches, 134
X, Malcolm, 93
Yankee Years, The (Torre), 197
Yankovic, “Weird Al,” 78
Yeah Yeah Yeahs, 34
Yorke, Thom, 16
“You Belong with Me” (Swift), 36
“You Could Be Mine” (Guns N’ Roses), 92
Y2K problem, 120
Zucker, David, 167
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