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FRIDAY
July 31, 1998
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Today in Entertainment:
Princess Charming By
Charles Taylor
After years of being the bad girl, Drew Barrymore finally gets the role she deserves (07/31/98)
Television By Joyce
Millman
"Lolita" debuts on cable; an Emmy nominated "Simpsons" (07/31/98)
21st The paperless book By Tamsin Todd
Leaving hardcovers and paperbacks behind, an Internet publisher experiments with downloadable literature (07/31/98)
Books Reviewed by
Laura Green
"Kaaterskill Falls": From the author of "The Family Markowitz," a searching novel about
an Orthodox Jewish community in an increasingly secular world
(07/31/98)
Sexpert Opinion By Susie
Bright
Viagra calls, II: Curse of the trophy wives
(07/31/98)
Letters On Caroline Knapp's "The Merry Recluse"
(07/31/98)
Media Circus Befriend and betray By Tom McNichol
If journalists can't stab their sources in the back, what will fill the pages of our nation's great newspapers and magazines?
(07/31/98)
Mothers Who Think Lusting after "Lolita"
By Justine Brown
A lifelong affair with "Lolita"
(07/31/98)
Money The economy of fake fat
By Heather Chaplin
Olestra: the oil that leaves you running for the bathroom
(07/31/98)
Newsreal A new kind of strike By David Bacon
The first auto strike over GM's global investment strategy
(07/31/98)
Salon Recommends The best in books, music, film, Web sites and new media (07/31/98)
Wanderlust Mondo Weirdo
A chance encounter with a 7-foot shark (07/31/98)
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THURSDAY
July 30, 1998
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21st Do loose lips sink chips? By Janelle Brown
Nondisclosure agreements are a way of life in Silicon Valley
(07/30/98)
Sneaks Reviewed by Dante Ramos
"The Sneaker Book": A cultural history of America's obsession with athletic shoes, from
1900 through the era of Michael Jordan (07/30/98)
Today in Entertainment:
The Negotiator Reviewed by Charles Taylor
This cop flick may be big and noisy, but it plods along too slowly to be called an action movie
(07/30/98)
Hollywood squared By Tim Cavanaugh
Pithemovie.com puts Hollywood's uninspired Web sites to shame
(07/30/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
From Beaver to Butt-head: ABC's look at TV teens
(07/30/98)
Media Circus Lugging the guts into the next room By
Bruce Shapiro
Steven Speilberg's "Saving Private Ryan" has sparked talk the government tried to silence -- talk of the psychic wounds inflicted on World War II vets (07/30/98)
Mothers Who Think Reality bites
By Karen Grigsby Bates
By making the irrelevant Mike Tyson case a big PR issue, NOW has
demonstrated once again that it is run by imperious and out-of-touch white
women
(07/30/98)
Letters Readers to Horowitz: The Religious Right isn't "progressive"
(07/30/98)
Newsreal The strange case of Kenneth S.
By Dr. Justin Frank
A Washington psychoanalyst analyzes "Kenneth S." and his odd fixation on the president's sex life
(07/30/98)
Tom the Dancing Bug By
Ruben Bolling
The Miracle of Consciousness
(07/30/98)
Wanderlust Tallest Tree epiphany By Simon Firth
A father and son make a rainy redwood pilgrimage
(07/30/98)
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WEDNESDAY
JULY 29, 1998
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21st Paul is live By John Alderman
A long-delayed interactive drama about a dead rock star makes a long-delayed debut (07/29/98)
Sneaks Reviewed by Stephanie Zacharek
"The American Way of Death Revisited": This updated version of the author's muckraking classic proves that
the funeral industry is as corrupt as it ever was
(07/29/98)
Today in Entertainment:
"At some point you gotta be strong" By Bob Cannon
Trisha Yearwood talks about her reluctant reign as queen of country music
(07/29/98)
Sharps and Flats
Reviews of new CDs by Nina Simone, Marshall Crenshaw, Christian McBride and Gillian Welch (07/29/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
Fox's "Terror in the Mall": Hasta la vista, Mrs. Fields!
Unzipped Heifers in tulle By
Courtney Weaver
When women hit their 30s, do they really storm the alter like cows to slaughter?
(07/29/98)
Mothers Who Think
The dictator in the house By Ros Davidson
The dark side of polygamy, Part Two
(07/29/98)
Newsreal Starr's final act? By David Corn
Kenneth Starr has sprung into action, but where is he headed? (07/29/98)
Letters "Mixed race" or "black"? Readers debate
(07/29/98)
Wanderlust England's decadent delights By Douglas Cruickshank
Our freelance freeloader samples the good life with Mariah Carey, clay
pigeons and single malt scotches at a luxurious castle hotel called
Stapleford Park (07/29/98)
The K Chronicles By
Keith Knight
A horrific '80s flashback!
(07/29/98)
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TUESDAY
July 28, 1998
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Poor little rich thugs By Hariette Surovell
How a pampered college boy wove a sordid web of dope dealing, strip-club orgies and murder for hire
(07/28/98)
Today in Entertainment:
Home Movies Love hurts By
Charles Taylor
The exquisite agony of Bertrand Blier's romantic dramas (07/28/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
New season for "Viva Variety," new night for "King of the Hill"
(07/28/98)
21st World war 3.0 Reviewed by
Andrew Leonard
A new book on futuristic "cyberwar" has an old-fashioned agenda
(07/28/98)
Sneaks Reviewed by
William Georgiades
"Will This Do?": An exceptionally entertaining autobiography by the journalist son of Evelyn Waugh
(07/28/98)
Lovers and
Writers By Garrison Keillor
If love's not there to begin with, is it ever gonna be?
(07/28/98)
Letters 1968; Microsoft orgies; don't dis sandy sex
(07/28/98)
Mothers Who Think Sins of the fathers By Ros Davidson
A polygamist's tale
(07/28/98)
Newsreal
Why Clinton caved in to Israel By Jonathan Broder
The Lewinsky scandal's first big victim: The Middle East peace process (07/28/98)
Story Minute By Carol
Lay
Mouth Off
(07/28/98)
Wanderlust
Lions and tigers are PC, oh my! By Sally Eckhoff
Disney goes PC at its new theme park
(07/28/98)
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MONDAY
JULY 27, 1998
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21st A lab for online experiments By Spencer Ante
Does the Web need nonprofit funding to keep its edge?
(07/27/98)
Today in Entertainment:
American squirm By Sarah Vowell
Kevin Spacey's je ne sais quoi: What is it about the Oscar-winning actor that makes him so compelling? (07/27/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
Our long national nightmare ends: "Melrose Place" starts new season
(07/27/98)
Right On! By David Horowitz
Upside-down politics: Our political vocabulary is so out of date that we call the true revolutionaries among us "conservatives" and the reactionaries "liberals"
(07/27/98)
Media Circus Chekhov, Marx and synergy By David Rakoff
Here's some literature even Tina Brown could love (07/27/98)
Mothers Who Think The Merry Recluse By Caroline Knapp
A single woman chooses a life of solitude in the Land of We
(07/27/98)
Newsreal Victim of circumstance
By Mollie Dickenson
How the Whitewater investigation smeared the innocent Rose Law Firm
(07/27/98)
Sneaks Reviewed by Lily Burana
"Slow Motion: A True Story": A spare and elegant memoir, from the author of "Picturing the Wreck," about her life after her parents were nearly killed in a devastating car accident
(07/27/98)
Letters Zorro; confessions of a G-string wearing man
(07/27/98)
This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
The kitchen-sink realism of the NY Times
(07/27/98)
Wanderlust
Sex, drugs and Armenian vodka By Drew Fellman
Exposed navels, short dresses and lascivious behavior are the order of the day in post-revolutionary Iran -- but only behind closed doors
(07/27/98)
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FRIDAY
July 24, 1998
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Today in Entertainment:
Total war By Gary Kamiya
Steven Spielberg's "Saving Private Ryan" brings hell to a theater
near you
(07/24/98)
Pearl Jam By Christopher Hawthorne
Standing at the Pearl-y gates of hell: Christopher Hawthorne channels his inner idiot at Pearl Jam's Sacramento show
(07/24/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
James Caan as P.I. Marlowe on HBO; the Lone Gunmen's first ride
on "X-Files"
(07/24/98)
21st The 21st Challenge No. 11 Results By Charlie Varon and Jim Rosenau
The urge to merge: Viacom plus ConAgra equals ...? (07/24/98)
Sneaks Reviewed by Stephanie
Zacharek
"The Girl in the Flammable Skirt": Short stories that combine a kind of magic realism with urban myth,
with often surprising results
(07/24/98)
Letters Readers praise, bash Conason; should parents censor?
(07/24/98)
Mothers Who Think Mulatto millennium
By Danzy Senna
Since when did being the daughter of a Wasp and a black-Mexican become cool?
(07/24/98)
Money Farmers of the American Dream
By Carol Lloyd
Financial infomercials promise "free money," but what they're really
selling is their faith in your "potential"
(07/24/98)
Today in Newsreal:
Vets declare "war" on CNN By Francis Pisani
The sarin gas story is more than a PR disaster for CNN; it is the biggest case yet of how networked organizing by a motivated group can overwhelm the power of traditional institutions
(07/24/98)
Bomb fugitive's family to make appeal By Jeff Stein
Relatives of Eric Rudolph, the suspect in a fatal 1998 abortion-clinic bombing, will ask him on Saturday to turn himself in
(07/24/98)
Salon Recommends Salon recommends the best in books, music and film (07/24/98)
Today in Wanderlust:
Mondo Weirdo No place like Oz
In Japan, a bar with no alcohol or music, only coffee
(07/24/98)
Favorite places to bare all
Nude beaches of the week
(07/24/98)
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THURSDAY
July 23, 1998
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21st
The church of Amiga By Greg Lindsay
Why do fans of the long-eclipsed computing platform keep the faith?
(07/23/98)
Today in Books:
The Salon Interview By Laura Miller
Richard Powers on cancer, corporations, the blankness of the Midwest
and the elusive art of seducing readers
The Salon Interview By Dwight Garner
Ken Kalfus: For 44-year-old Ken Kalfus, who has just published his first book, "Thirst," success was worth waiting for
Salon Spotlight By Laura Miller
The many voices of Ken Kalfus: Ken Kalfus emerges as a major literary talent his story collection "Thirst"
"Thirst" By Ken Kalfus
The title story from Ken Kalfus' debut story collection, "Thirst"
Books Reviewed by Alissa Lara
"Basquiat": A biography of the first black American artist to achieve
international stardom, who overdosed on heroin at age 27
Today in Entertainment:
An audience with the queen By Fiona Morgan
Former Kid in the Hall Scott Thompson holds court about his sissy-celebrating new book and solo tour
(07/23/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
Kinky marionettes on MTV's "Super Adventure Team"
(07/23/98)
Mothers Who Think Second Thoughts
By Sallie Tisdale
Just say no: Forget quality -- it's quantity time that matters
(07/23/98)
Letters Readers sound off on Steve Erickson's "It's the sex, stupid"
(07/23/98)
Newsreal Reno under fire
By Jonathan Broder
As if she didn't have enough to worry about, Attorney General Janet Reno may soon face a draconian attempt by Senate Republicans to force her to turn over control of the campaign finance probe
(07/23/98)
Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling
The substanceless news
(07/23/98)
Wanderlust Safety strategies By Dawn MacKeen
Savvy safety tips for business travelers
(07/23/98)
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WEDNESDAY
JULY 22, 1998
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21st Let's Get This Straight By Scott Rosenberg
Web "virgins" site proves you can fool some of the press some of the time (07/22/98)
Sneaks Reviewed by Allen Barra
"The Muhammad Ali Reader": A collection of essays -- from Norman Mailer, Hunter S. Thompson
and Tom Wolfe, among others -- that seeks to tease out Ali's multiple
meanings
(07/22/98)
Today in Entertainment:
The Mask of Zorro By Charles Taylor
High Z: A glorious, rousing adventure starring Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones
(07/22/98)
Sharps and Flats
Reviews of new music by Linda Ronstadt, Built to Spill, Nanci Griffith, DJ Hardware and Counting Crows
(07/22/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
"Daily Show" anniversary special; Bob Cringely builds a plane
Unzipped The G-string mystery By Courtney Weaver
Uncovering the truth behind the seductions of lingerie
(07/22/98)
Today in Mothers Who Think:
The face of Zorro By Luis Valdez
For 80 years, Zorro has been the shining star of a mythical California,
set in a time and place that never existed. In "The Mask of Zorro," he
still is.
(07/22/98)
Zorro vs. Tarzana By Stephen Talbot
How the masked avenger taught a white kid from the suburbs that California's past -- and its present -- was older, darker and more soulful than he had ever dreamed
(07/22/98)
Media Circus Under the Covers
By James Poniewozik
Would you buy a new car from this novelist? Why are Don DeLillo and David Duchovny shilling for Oldsmobile? Ask the folks at the New York Times Book Review, where yesterday's essay becomes today's ad copy!
(07/22/98)
Newsreal The year of dreaming dangerously By Stephen Talbot
To understand the activists of the '60s, you have to
revisit 1968 and consider what it was like to those who lived through
it (07/22/98)
Letters Readers weigh in on Jennifer Lopez's butt
(07/22/98)
Wanderlust
Tampax nightmares By Susan Hack
It's hard to find a good tampon in Yemen -- and other misadventures (07/22/98)
The K Chronicles By Keith Knight
The "V" Games rise up!
(07/22/98)
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TUESDAY
July 21, 1998
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Today in Entertainment:
Home Movies Silvery moon By Charles Taylor
"The Moon's Our Home": Silvery art deco romantic comedy (07/21/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
Selling "Private Ryan": Tom Hanks is everywhere
(07/21/98)
21st Microsoft.orgy By Andrew Leonard
When Microsoft started giving away free videoconferencing software, it didn't plan on hosting a global sex party
(07/21/98)
Sneaks Reviewed by Peter Kurth
"Summer of Deliverance": A trenchant, beautifully written memoir by the son of James Dickey,
who was not only a poet but a hard-drinking, womanizing wild man
(07/21/98)
Ask Camille By Camille Paglia
Why American athletes don't kiss and hug like soccer stars
(07/21/98)
Left Hook By Joe Conason
Why conservatives hate Clinton: Forget the scandals. Right-wingers fear the president because he's saving the Democratic Party
(07/21/98)
Letters Cincinnati Enquirer sells out its reporter
(07/21/98)
Media Circus Secrets of Mitterand's love child -- just $22! By David Downie
France is gaga over François Mitterand's love-child's very trashy first novel
(07/21/98)
Mothers Who Think
Drama Queen Contestants
Bad trips: This month's contestants on family vacations from hell
(07/21/98)
Newsreal The attack judge By Jonathan Broder
One federal jurist has shocked even hardened Washington insiders by suggesting that Clinton has declared "war" on the U.S. in his battle with Ken Starr (07/21/98)
Story Minute By Carol Lay
The convict in the guest room
(07/21/98)
Wanderlust
By David Downie
Homemade heaven in Italy: Wild boar stew and other delights in Italy
(07/21/98)
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FRIDAY
July 17, 1998
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Today in Entertainment:
"There's Something About Mary" By Charles Taylor
Dumb and somewhat less dumb: The scatological brothers Farrelly try
their grubby hands at romantic comedy
(07/17/98)
Close encounters By Joyce Millman
MTV's "FANatic" helps fans invade their favorite stars' space
(07/17/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
Earthquakes, volcanoes, Naomi Campbell and other forces of nature
(07/17/98)
Today in 21st:
Let's Get This Straight By Scott Rosenberg
How do you retract a
story online? Time, the New Republic and the Cincinnati Enquirer map the
high, middle and low roads (07/17/98)
A tangled Web for virgins site By Greg Lindsay
New details cast doubt on the "Our First Time" story (07/17/98)
Books Reviewed by Michelle
Goldberg
"Hope in a Jar": Has America's beauty culture created new anxieties for women, the
author asks, or has it prompted new freedoms?
(07/17/98)
Sexpert Opinion By Susie Bright
Sand hassles: Grit, grunge and chlorine make outdoor sex an overrated ordeal
(07/17/98)
Letters Horowitz on Camille Cosby; Hitchens on the Dalai Lama
(07/17/98)
Mothers Who Think Censorship and sensibility
By Inda Schaenen
Should kids be able to read anything they want? (07/17/98)
Money The Reluctant Capitalist
By Heather Chaplin
Glutton for luxury: One woman's necessity is another woman's excess
(07/17/98)
Newsreal Ken Starr's heavy hitter By Maria Recio
Heavy hitter: Ken Starr's point man has a track record of compelling reporters to testify (07/17/98)
Salon Recommends Salon recommends the best in books, music and film (07/17/98)
This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
The Annoying Duo vs. Trent Lott!
(07/13/98)
Today in Wanderlust:
Couped up in Cambodia By Rosemary Berkeley
A coastal resort seemed the perfect place for a long weekend away from Phnom Penh -- until civil war shut down the country
(07/17/98)
Mondo Weirdo
Nude beaches of the week: Readers expose their secret places to sunbathe and skinny dip (07/17/98)
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THURSDAY
July 16, 1998
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Today in 21st:
The Web's sacrificial virgins
By Greg Lindsay
Is "Our First Time" serious sex-education or cheesy scam? (07/16/98)
Net freedom ring
By David Hudson
Mike Godwin, legal pit bull for free speech online, tells his war stories (07/16/98)
Books Reviewed by Hal Hinson
"Lucky Bastard": In this fantastical and deeply entertaining novel, the bastard son
of a JFK-type president explodes onto the political scene (07/16/98)
Today in Entertainment:
"Pi" Reviewed by Laura Miller
Fuzzy logic: An arty mix of math and migraines
(07/16/98)
The Latin invasion By John Milward
A "midrocker" finds reason to learn how to really dance
(07/16/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
"Fox Files": Newsmagazine for the paranoid
(07/16/98)
Media Circus Morale lunch, anyone? By Daniel Radosh
The real Kinsley e-mail (07/16/98)
Mothers Who Think Slice of life
By Maurine Shores
Memories of a cake that tasted like summer
(07/16/98)
Letters Dalai Lama defended; "Fetish Nation" praised
(07/16/98)
Today in Newsreal:
The secret life of a scandal
By Steve Erickson
Americans forgive Clinton and Lewinsky because they understand the truth about sex, lies and legal obsessions
(07/16/98)
All the president's guards
By Jonathan Broder
A new and damaging leak about Clinton's Secret Service detail re-ignites the firestorm enveloping Kenneth Starr and the White House
(07/16/98)
Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling
Super Fun-Pak Comix!
(07/16/98)
Wanderlust Tour en Irlande By David Moore
The Tour de France, the world's largest annual sporting event, begins with three days of pomp and pedaling -- in Ireland
(07/16/98)
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WEDNESDAY
JULY 15, 1998
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21st A Web of their own By Janelle Brown
Scientologists say their Internet filter protects the faithful. Critics call it "cult mind control" (07/15/98)
Sneaks Reviewed by Dwight Garner
"Red Lobster, White Trash and the Blue Lagoon": A guided tour through mass American culture (Sizzler steakhouses,
Kenny G. albums) from the dyspeptic magazine writer
(07/15/98)
Today in Entertainment:
Back is beautiful By Erin J. Aubry
Does the public's embrace of Jennifer Lopez's abundant butt signal a cultural revolution -- or simply the triumph of watered-down multiculturalism?
(07/15/98)
Sharps and Flats
Reviews of new music by the Beastie Boys, BR5-49,
Primus, Baaba Maal, Shirley Horn and Ernest Ranglin
(07/15/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
"Cabin Boy" reunion on "Letterman"; PBS's underwater paradise
Unzipped Dirty girls By Courtney Weaver
How a new species of fetid, freaky, football-loving chicks is changing the face of gender politics in the U.K.
(07/15/98)
Mothers Who Think A counterculture childhood By Lisa Michaels
In an excerpt from her new book, the author remembers being 3 years old and waving a Vietcong flag
(07/15/98)
Newsreal Seymour Hersh vs. the Pentagon By Lori Leibovich
The reporter who broke the My Lai story is back, challenging the government's explanation of Gulf War Syndrome (07/15/98)
Letters Conason on left-wing patriotism; "Mulan"
(07/15/98)
Wanderlust
"Bad News From a Black Coast": Part Two By Moritz Thomsen
Part Two of Moritz Thomsen's unpublished memoir
(07/15/98)
The K Chronicles By Keith Knight
Lost youth
(07/15/98)
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TUESDAY
July 14, 1998
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Today in Entertainment:
Home Movies Melodrama queen By Charles Taylor
"Matador": Almodóvar's paean to sex, violence, passion and death (07/14/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
Did you know the Titanic had a sister?
(07/14/98)
21st Lights, camera, point, click, action! By John Alderman
Some subjects -- like filmmaking -- were made for educational multimedia
(07/14/98)
Sneaks Reviewed by Austin Bunn
"Misadventures in the (213)": Shallow riffs on Los Angeles and its discontents, from a young Detour magazine columnist
(07/14/98)
Lovers and
Writers By Garrison Keillor
Does love have to be a five-alarm fire?
(07/14/98)
Letters Time/CNN snafu: When is the rest of the media going to apologize?
(07/14/98)
Media Circus The last temptation of Kinsley By Bruce Barcott
Did Slate's editor blow the New Yorker editor's job by not leaping immediately into S.I. Newhouse's lap?
(07/14/98)
Mothers Who Think
Beach babble on By Polly Shulman
A selection of books immerses kids in a wetter, wavier world
(07/14/98)
Newsreal Naked ladies triumph By David Steinberg
A historic multimillion-dollar settlement against the Mitchell Brothers confirms that T&A providers are indeed employees (07/14/98)
Story Minute By Carol Lay
Mr. Flip-flop
(07/14/98)
Today in Wanderlust
Bad news from a black coast
By Moritz Thomsen
In an exclusive excerpt, a renowned writer reflects on wealth and poverty, sand spits and pigs in rural Ecuador
(07/14/98)
The saddest gringo: Moritz Thomsen in exile
By Pat Joseph
Moritz Thomsen in exile: An unforgettable encounter with the legendary writer shortly before his death
(07/14/98)
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MONDAY
JULY 13, 1998
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21st 3-D epiphany By Mark Pesce
Forget cyberpunk -- Char Davies is remaking virtual reality along human lines
(07/13/98)
Today in Entertainment:
American squirm By Sarah Vowell
Guilty pleasures: Jennifer Lopez isn't the only one who thinks cruising criminals is fun
(07/13/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
Naughty sock puppets debut on MTV; "Cybill" finale
(07/13/98)
Right On! By David Horowitz
Mrs. Cosby's racial paranoia: What right does a grieving mother have to blame American racism for the murder of her son by a Ukrainian immigrant?
(07/13/98)
Media Circus Lights, camera ... Miami! By Robin Dougherty
With his new CityVision, Barry Diller is gambling that a city can be a star (07/13/98)
Mothers Who Think A masterful Machiavellian matriarch By Lesley Gold
Former Rep. Pat Schroeder talks about her 24-year stint in Congress, sharing a chair with Ron Dellums and why Monica Lewinsky is no victim
(07/13/98)
Newsreal His material highness
By Christopher Hitchens
Far from his holier-than-all image, the Dalai Lama supports such questionable causes as India's nuclear testing, sex with prostitutes and accepting donations from a Japanese terrorist cult
(07/13/98)
Sneaks Reviewed by Charles Taylor
"Mr. Mike": A comprehensive if overly respectful biography of Michael
O'Donoghue, the dark genius behind early "Saturday Night Live"
(07/13/98)
Letters Paglia impaled; Southerners hurl anti-air conditioning author into Hades
(07/13/98)
This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
Time Magazine, Male Chauvinist Pig organ
(07/13/98)
Today in Wanderlust:
Wimbledon's grand finale
By Simon Worrall
From Jack Nicholson to knicker shots, behind the scenes at the All England Club
(07/13/98)
Dancing in the streets
By Ethan Zindler
Dancing in the streets -- Paris celebrates the World Cup
(07/13/98)
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FRIDAY
July 10, 1998
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Today in Entertainment:
"Small Soldiers" Reviewed by Scott Rosenberg
Toy gory: How much mayhem can a bunch of foot-high action figures incite? Plenty
(07/10/98)
Television "Gulliver," "Odyssey," "The Stand": Return of the big minis
(07/10/98)
Today in 21st:
Shoot to thrill By Greg Lindsay
"Unreal" takes the first-person
shooter game to the next graphic level. But is that enough? (07/10/98)
The 21st Challenge No. 11 The urge to merge By Charlie Varon and Jim Rosenau
Devise new high-tech mergers -- win a prize! (07/10/98)
Sneaks Reviewed by David Bowman
"A Conspiracy of Tall Men": Don DeLillo meets "The X-Files" in this novel about a professor of
"conspiracy theory" whose wife is killed in a suspicious airplane accident
(07/10/98)
Letters Is John Irving a meanie? Readers come to blows
(07/10/98)
Mothers Who Think Cracking down
By Jeff Stryker
Barbara Harris pays addicted mothers $200 not to have children -- ever again (07/10/98)
Money Our watches, our selves
By Robert Bryce
As the economy keeps on ticking, the watch industry sells the daze of our lives
(07/10/98)
Newsreal Toward a post-gay world
By Daniel Reitz
Gay Pride Month passed quietly this year -- maybe that means we no longer really need to make so much noise
(07/10/98)
Salon Recommends Salon recommends the best in books, music, film and games (07/10/98)
Today in Wanderlust:
My Serengeti crapshoot By Rajiv Rao
What do you do when you have to go in the middle of the night -- and lions have taken over the outhouse?
(07/10/98)
Mondo Weirdo
It's a jungle out there: The naked truth about the best nude beaches (07/10/98)
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THURSDAY
July 9, 1998
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21st
Rags for Net richies By Janelle Brown
A passel of new
magazines tries to snag the tech-business elite -- but only the fittest will
survive (07/09/98)
Books Reviewed by Laura Green
"Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs": From the author of "Drinking: A Love Story," a memoir about how
people can sometimes fail you, but dogs rarely do
Today in Entertainment:
Madeline By Fiona Morgan
"Madeline" rules! The heroine of children's books is just as plucky on the big screen
(07/09/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
"Seinfeld" highlight reel rolls again
(07/09/98)
Today in Media Circus:
Under the Covers Brown and out in New York By James Poniewozik
Tina Brown took the New Yorker off its pedestal and brought it down to dirty earth. Her next stop: Hollywood (07/09/98)
Buzzing about the buzz machine By Susan Lehman
Colleagues offer kisses and poison darts for the departing Tina Brown (07/09/98)
Mothers Who Think Second thoughts
By Sallie Tisdale
Keeping each other company: It's easy to say that it takes a village to raise a child, but we don't have villages -- we have corporate day-care centers
(07/09/98)
Letters Reviewing "Armageddon";
in defense of "Mommie Dearest"
(07/09/98)
Newsreal God's own Zip Code
By Christopher Ott
A leading radio evangelist wields power on the right
(07/09/98)
Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling
Trent Lott's Bible stories
(07/09/98)
Wanderlust The Grand Eurotrash World Cup Bar Tour By Gary Kamiya
To catch World Cup fever in America, you've got to find the rest of the world. That's why God invented bars
(07/09/98)
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WEDNESDAY
JULY 8, 1998
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Today in 21st:
Consciousness dethroned By Matthew DeBord
The mind's "I" only thinks it's in charge, argues "The User Illusion " (07/08/98)
Let's Get This Straight By Scott Rosenberg
"Groupthink-ware"
lets you follow the crowds on the Web -- instead of going your own way (07/08/98)
Sneaks Reviewed by Mark Athitakis
"The Exes": A spunky, tuneful novel about a Boston-based band comprised
entirely of former lovers
(07/08/98)
Today in Entertainment:
The son also rises By Dawn Eden
After a lifetime of disappointments, Julian Lennon is finally doing it his way
(07/08/98)
Sharps and Flats
Reviews of the latest recordings from the Cowboy
Junkies, the B-52s, Calexico, Komeda, Patty Griffin and Alvin Youngblood
Hart
(07/08/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
Sam Shepard: Playwright, actor, stud on PBS
(07/08/98)
Unzipped Indecent Exposure By Courtney Weaver
What's behind the passion of doing the deed in risky places?
(07/08/98)
Mothers Who Think Global baby warming By Constance Matthiessen
The anthropological "Our Babies, Ourselves" urges us to question some of the fundamental ways Americans raise their children
(07/08/98)
Media Circus Rotten banana
By Bruce Shapiro
While the media race to condemn the Cincinnati Enquirer reporter who broke into Chiquita's voice mail, they're forgetting who the real villain is
(07/08/98)
Newsreal Author, author! By Jonathan Broder
Everyone wants to know who wrote the "talking points" (07/08/98)
Letters Homelessness isn't whimsical; Drudge is no journalist
(07/08/98)
Wanderlust
Letter from Wimbledon By Simon Worrall
Mice and mist and mirthlessness mix at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club (07/08/98)
The K Chronicles By Keith Knight
Band on the run
(07/08/98)
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TUESDAY
July 7, 1998
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Today in Entertainment:
Home Movies By Charles Taylor
Video vacation: Summery, sensuous fun: "High Season" and "Rough Magic" (07/07/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
The Boys of Summer: Baseball's All-Star Game
(07/07/98)
21st Hands off that data -- I'm European! By Karlin Lillington
A transatlantic trade war brews over data privacy rules
(07/07/98)
Sneaks Reviewed by Peter Kurth
"Light My Fire: My Life With The Doors": An elegiac, high-flown memoir by the former Doors keyboardist, who remains obsessed with singer Jim Morrison's legacy
(07/07/98)
Ask Camille By Camille Paglia
Linda Tripp as White House ghoul; gay men and female power (07/07/98)
Left Hook By Joe Conason
Liberalism is as patriotic as apple pie: Left-wingers have as much right to wave the flag as conservatives -- and when you look at our nation's history, maybe more
(07/07/98)
Letters Mollie Dickenson, pro and con; Tisdale's "Spoiled Rotten"
(07/07/98)
Mothers Who Think
Mulan through the looking glass By Katherine Kim
For young Asian-American women, Mulan is no mirror image, but at least she casts back a reflection
(07/07/98)
Newsreal Investigating the investigator By Jonathan Broder
Michael Shaheen, the man probing whether Kenneth Starr's key Whitewater witness was paid off by Clinton critics, is known as an ethical straight-shooter (07/07/98)
Story Minute By Carol Lay
Mr. Flip-flop
(07/07/98)
Today in Wanderlust
The Cup runneth over and over
By Ethan Zindler
World Cup scenes: Professional scalpers and amateur partyers converge in Marseille
(07/07/98)
World Cup scenes
By Matthew McAllester
Passion and indifference mix in rural France
(07/07/98)
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FRIDAY
July 3, 1998
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Today in Entertainment:
Husbands and wives By Joyce Millman
"Everybody Loves Raymond" is a family sitcom -- but it's not about
the kids
(07/03/98)
Dig his mood By John Milward
Nick Lowe puts the "roll" back into rock 'n' roll
(07/03/98)
Television Fireworks, Wimbledon and Duchovny on "SNL"
(07/03/98)
21st Baring your soul to the Web By Simon Firth
Online diarists have invented a new art form and gathered a devoted following. But now some pioneers are questioning what they've created (07/03/98)
Books Reviewed by Katharine
Whittemore
"Imagining Atlantis": Did the famed "lost city" exist or didn't it? The author, a marine
expert, adeptly wades through dozens of (often crackpot) arguments and
theories (07/03/98)
Letters Linux and breast-feeding
(07/03/98)
Media Circus Why the Time/CNN nerve-gas debacle was inevitable By Ted Gup
A former Time reporter argues that until the newsweekly becomes more concerned with getting the story right than making a buzz, its credibility will never return
(07/03/98)
Mothers Who Think Boho/professional goddess seeks modern man
By Nicki Blake
A personal ad turns up a purple-haired sweetie (07/03/98)
Money The Reluctant Capitalist
By Heather Chaplin
Pot of gold or P.C. money pit? Socially responsible mutual funds claim to help you do good while doing well, but are they just trying to sell you a bill of goods?
(07/03/98)
Newsreal True believer
By Bruce Shapiro
Widely regarded as a fair-minded moderate, Kenneth Starr comes from a movement of right-wing judicial activists who are determined to revolutionize American law -- and are succeeding
(07/03/98)
Sexpert Opinion By Susie Bright
Submit to me, Trent Lott! You know you want it (07/03/98)
Salon Recommends Salon recommends the best in books, music and film (07/03/98)
This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
The media's Monica madness
(07/03/98)
Today in Wanderlust:
Hog heaven By David Kohn
At the Memphis World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest
(07/03/98)
Mondo Weirdo
Nude Beach of the Week: Readers bare all on an isolated Maui beach -- and in the heart of Munich (07/03/98)
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THURSDAY
July 2, 1998
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Today in 21st:
The big chilly By Julie Caniglia
It has sped up our work lives, forced us to wear sweaters in July and robbed us of the chance to sweat. Down with air conditioning! (07/02/98)
Razorfish among the sharks By Greg Lindsay
In the rapidly consolidating world of Web design companies, is bigger really better? (07/02/98)
Sneaks Reviewed by Jon Garelick
"Split: A Counterculture Childhood": A smart, quiet memoir from a young writer whose parents were
members of the Weather Underground in the 1960s
Today in Entertainment:
Without reservations By Mary Elizabeth
Williams
A conversation with "Smoke Signals'" Sherman
Alexie
(07/02/98)
Sharps & Flats
Everything old is young again By Bill C. Malone
New music from the veterans of Old Country is roping in rock audiences (07/02/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
Jerry Seinfeld is the devil
(07/02/98)
Fetish Nation By Carol Lloyd
The sexual underground, amplified by Internet culture, is more visible than ever, celebrating its brave new world of whips, diapers and corsets. But is the rest of America ready to follow?
(07/02/98)
Media Circus Male writers vs. female writers: Beyond the preconceptions By Joanna Scott
An acclaimed novelist argues that the most interesting women writers can't be compared to men -- because they defy all categories (07/02/98)
Today in Mothers Who Think:
Drama Queen for a Day Outings to hell and back
Summer means it's outing time -- those plein-air excursions that provide mother and child the chance to bond over sticky cotton candy
(07/02/98)
Time for One Thing
By Karen Templer
Your show of shows: Watching daytime television may be less about liking the shows than it is about claiming some undisputed territory
(07/02/98)
Letters New feminists rebuked; Sen. McCain's Chelsea joke
(07/02/98)
Newsreal Did you ever see the president stop beating his wife?
By Todd Gitlin
More questions for Mr. Starr's interrogation of Sidney Blumenthal
(07/02/98)
Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling
Nerrex Corporation is your friend!
(07/02/98)
Wanderlust Yankee, go home! By Michaela Griffin
Being an American expatriate in Beijing was great -- until the president decided to visit
(07/02/98)
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WEDNESDAY
JULY 1, 1998
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21st America Online vs. the "Net nobility" By Andrew Leonard
A new AOL chronicle paints the company's rise as the triumph of the online common man (07/01/98)
Sneaks Reviewed by Nina Mehta
"My Year of Meats": A first novel, from a young filmmaker, about the making of a
documentary series about the meat industry for Japanese TV
(07/01/98)
Today in Entertainment:
Armageddon Reviewed by Charles Taylor
Rocks in the head: This summer's other meteor movie is so dumb and unimaginative, it would even embarrass NASA
(07/01/98)
Road warrior By David Bowman
The path to Lucinda Williams' "Car Wheels" was paved with good intentions
(07/01/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
Karla Faye Tucker lives -- on A&E
(07/01/98)
Unzipped 24-hour Naughty-house By Courtney Weaver
Is your gym a den of inequity?
(07/01/98)
Mothers Who Think Mommie Dearest in drag By Paul Festa
Why would Joan Crawford's daughter embrace the gay cult that thinks
her childhood abuse is one big campy joke?
(07/01/98)
Media Circus From crackhead to literary star
By Matthew Flamm
The writer Kurt Vonnegut hails as "the new Jack London" revisits his former home -- Grand Central Station
(07/01/98)
Newsreal A prayer for Owen Mean By Peter Kurth
John Irving emerges as a capitalist windbag as class warfare erupts in Vermont (07/01/98)
Letters Horowitz on gays; just how obscure is "The Peony Pavilion"?
(07/01/98)
Wanderlust
Jazz swings into Beijing By Dan Ouellette
Even better than President Clinton, jazz in China is spreading a message of liberty (07/01/98)
The K Chronicles By Keith Knight
Gag me with a cat
(07/01/98)
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