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MONDAY
AUGUST 31, 1998
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21st The saint of free software By Andrew Leonard
Maverick Richard Stallman keeps the faith -- and gives Bill Gates the finger
(08/31/98)
Today in Entertainment:
Monicagate: The movie By Tim Cavanaugh
Hollywood's hottest script doctor makes a house call -- to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
(08/31/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
All Diana, all the time on the anniversary of her death
(08/31/98)
Right On! By David Horowitz
Repressed memory syndrome: The legendary year 1968 stills hold the baby-boom generation in thrall -- but it was actually the pinnacle of anti-democratic narcissism
(08/31/98)
Media Circus Diana: One year later, still dead By Peter Kurth
The anniversary of Princess Di's death brings yet another deluge of books seeking to make hay on the most covered event of all time (08/31/98)
Money How far will Wall Street fall? By Jonathan Broder
Russia's economic turmoil may spread, says one stock analyst, but the fundamentals of the American economy are still strong
(08/31/98)
Mothers Who Think Breathing lessons By Arthur Allen
Childhood asthma is one of the most insidious, endemic afflictions in the black community. Why is conquering it so difficult?
(08/31/98)
Newsreal Bogus emotion and mass credulity
By Christopher Hitchens
One year after Diana's death, people are finally beginning to ask: What the hell was that all about?
(08/31/98)
Sneaks Reviewed by Dan Cryer
"The Farming of Bones" by Edwidge Danticat: Is Danticat Haiti's great gift to American literature, or simply
overrated? Her third book, about a little-known massacre, gives credence to
the latter interpretation
(08/31/98)
Letters Hawaiians push Cintra into the volcano; kids and computers
(08/31/98)
This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
Clinton's REAL confession (08/31/98)
Wanderlust Dealing with air rage
By Dawn MacKeen
How should airlines deal with unruly passengers? British Airways is going to "yellow card" them
(08/31/98)
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FRIDAY
Aug. 28, 1998
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Today in Entertainment:
"54" Reviewed by Charles Taylor
Studio 54, where are you?: Instead of offering a comic portrait of '70s excess, "54" is a disappointing '90s-style morality tale (08/28/98)
"Slums of Beverly Hills" Reviewed by Mary Elizabeth Williams
Nomad's land: Tamara Jenkins' debut feature is a gritty, nostalgic trip through the wrong side of 90210
(08/28/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
Helen Hunt stars in PBS broadcast of "Twelfth Night"; Di dies again
(08/28/98)
21st Just the facts, RAM By Christopher Ott
Do computers in the classroom promote a conservative vision of education? (08/28/98)
Sneaks Reviewed by Mark Athitakis
"I Am Jackie Chan" by Jackie Chan: This memoir from the Hong Kong action star isn't as bare-knuckled as his best films, but fans will love the nitty-gritty detail
(08/28/98)
Sexpert Opinion By Susie Bright
School for scandal: Clinton's woes give America a crash course in sex-ed
(08/28/98)
Letters Catholics and Clinton; are pundits envious of Bill's virility?
(08/28/98)
Mothers Who Think Hot Flash
By Fiona Morgan
Shunning and shaming: Berkeley rallies around a mother and her murdered child
(08/28/98)
Money The Reluctant Capitalist
By Heather Chaplin
Dis' Capital: Capitalism bashing or pedophilia: Which is a greater taboo?
(08/28/98)
Newsreal Newt's glass house By Stephen Talbot
Why Newt Gingrich is reluctant to cast the first stone at adulterer President Clinton
(08/28/98)
Salon Recommends Salon recommends the best in books, music, movies, TV (08/28/98)
Wanderlust Burning love By Gale Walden
Elvis devotees and wannabes gather in Memphis
(08/28/98)
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THURSDAY
Aug. 27, 1998
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21st iMac -- iLove it or iHate it By Janelle Brown and Scott Rosenberg
Is Apple's new blue bombshell a hit or a dud? A debate
(08/27/98)
Sneaks Reviewed by Peter Kurth
"Prozac Diary" by Lauren Slater: Nothing at all like Elizabeth Wurtzel's earlier "Prozac Nation,"
this sturdy memoir traces the author's life from her disturbed adolescence
to her success as a psychologist and writer (08/27/98)
Today in Entertainment:
Seeing past the "Endless Summer" By Mark Athitakis
In preparation for next year's planned reissues of the Beach Boys' 1970s records, "Endless Harmony" begins to spotlight the classic vocal group's underrated later history
(08/27/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
Prince Charles and Prince duke it out on "Deathmatch"
(08/27/98)
Mothers Who Think Second Thoughts
By Sallie Tisdale
The real message of the insincere recordings that have invaded our lives: Stop complaining
(08/27/98)
Media Circus Gear and loathing
By Mary Elizabeth Williams
Bob Guccione Jr. does the time warp in his post-Spin production
(08/27/98)
Letters Explaining Mother
Jones' financial woes; why
guidebooks can't be trusted
(08/27/98)
Newsreal Is bin Laden a terrorist mastermind -- or a fall guy?
By Loren Jenkins
The Clinton administration accuses Saudi renegade Osama bin Laden of being directly responsible for almost every terrorist act of the last decade. But where's the evidence?
(08/27/98)
Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling
Super
Fun-Pac Comix!
(08/27/98)
Wanderlust Passages By Emily Hiestand
Angela, the Upside-Down Girl : First encounters with Boston -- and with a stripper extraordinaire named Angela
(08/27/98)
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WEDNESDAY
Aug. 26, 1998
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21st Why kids don't need computers By Andrew Leonard
Don't feel guilty about not buying your toddler a Pentium, a new book argues
(08/26/98)
Books Reviewed by Scott Sutherland
"Miracle on the Mountain" by Mike and Mary Couillard and
"Deep Play" by Paul Pritchard: Two books about mountain climbing that attempt, with only middling
success, to pick up where Jon Krakauer's "Into Thin Air" left off
(08/26/98)
Today in Entertainment:
Sharps and Flats
Reviews of new CDs from Elliot Smith, Lauryn Hill, Cracker, James McMurtry and the Headhunters
(08/26/98)
"I get cynical" By David Bowman
Bob Mould talks about the end of Hüsker Dü, the breakup of Sugar and why his upcoming tour will be his "Last Dog and Pony Show"
(08/26/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
Chicken pox outbreak on "South Park"; Ahnold's bodybuilding special
Writers and Lovers By Garrison Keillor
How do I handle being the Antarctic stud? Mr. Blue answers questions about writing and romance
(08/26/98)
Unzipped Probing men's anal fixation By Courtney Weaver
Finding The One doesn't have to mean an end to sexual pioneering
(08/26/98)
Today in Mothers Who Think
I want you so bad By Carol Lloyd
Now that our president has confessed to adultery, will the American people follow him to the pillory?
(08/26/98)
Drama Queen for a Day Green eggs and Spam
Meals that make kids barf -- and other culinary delights
(08/26/98)
Newsreal By Jonathan Broder
How to turn a criminal to a hero: U.S. bombs turn bin Laden into a good guy
(08/26/98)
Letters Readers respond in droves to Talbot's "Enough!" editorial
(08/26/98)
Wanderlust My junior year abroad By Edith Pearlman
A 60-year-old's adventures in a classroom called Jerusalem
(08/26/98)
The K Chronicles By Keith Knight
It's a dog's life
(08/26/98)
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TUESDAY
Aug. 25, 1998
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Today in Entertainment:
Home Movies James Bond gets a life By Charles Taylor
007 showed his most human face in the oddball entry "On Her Majesty's
Secret Service"
(08/25/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
George Bush's TV memoir; Oliver Sacks' favorite head cases (08/25/98)
21st The Xy files By Amy Virshup
For the rest of the world, XyWrite is history -- but to its devotees, the antiquated word processor still rules
(08/25/98)
Sneaks Reviewed by Mark Athitakis
"Rainbow Six" by Tom Clancy: Eco-terrorists plan to unleash a deadly Ebola-like virus on the
entire world! No problem: Clancy's latest hero, Jack Clark, is on the case
(08/25/98)
Letters Hey, Christian right: Read your Bible
(08/25/98)
Mothers Who Think
By Lisa Moskowitz
The heat is on: Soothe your savage summer beast
(08/25/98)
Today in Newsreal:
Letter from Washington By Mollie Dickenson
Aging hormones: Why Washington's elderly elite hate Clinton (08/25/98)
Kenneth Starr, porn legend! By Gary Kamiya
"Kenny Hard's" hot new film, shot in the White House with a sizzling all-amateur cast, is expected to break flesh-flick box-office records -- and revitalize a moribund industry (08/25/98)
Story Minute By Carol Lay
Zen
and the art of White House
spinning
(08/25/98)
Wanderlust
My Hawaiian honeymoon By Cintra Wilson
Of a 1,300-pound pop-ukulele star, teenage bikini queens and the best
wave on earth
(08/25/98)
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MONDAY
AUGUST 24, 1998
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21st Revolt of the couch potatoes By Howard Wen
When TV fans want to save a favorite show from cancellation, they organize online. But do the networks care?
(08/24/98)
Today in Entertainment:
American Squirm By Sarah Vowell
Fear of flying: Malcolm MacPherson's updated "Black Box" transcripts give us a grisly idea of what death really sounds like
(08/24/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
Who's been with whom on "Melrose Place"; foot fetishes on
"Ally McBeal"
(08/24/98)
Left Hook By Joe Conanson
Here comes Newt!: Don't look now, but guess who is about to make a political comeback
(08/24/98)
Media Circus Will Mother Jones become more politically correct? By Ashley Craddock
The resignation of Mother Jones editor Jeffrey Klein sparks fears that the magazine will hew to a left-wing party line (08/24/98)
Mothers Who Think Black like (white me) Reviewed by Janet McDonald
"A Hope in the Unseen" tells the story of an inner-city black kid at Brown -- through the eyes of a white author who tries to channel him
(08/24/98)
Newsreal The other grand jury begins
By Murray Waas
Exclusive: Grand jury begins investigating Arkansas Project
(08/24/98)
Books Reviewed by Elizabeth Judd
"For Kings and Planets" by Ethan Canin: Canin's new novel is about a self-described "hayseed" who befriends
another, more glamorous, freshman at Columbia University
(08/24/98)
Letters Why should Hillary feel humiliated?
(08/24/98)
This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
Zen
and the art of White House
spinning
(08/24/98)
Wanderlust
By Melanie Goldman
Sex, death and beauty in South America: Week Two of the Camel Trophy
(08/24/98)
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FRIDAY
Aug. 21, 1998
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Today in Entertainment:
"Unmade Beds" and "Your Friends and Neighbors" Reviewed by Laura Miller
Jungle love: Two new movies take a look at why, when it comes to romance, people treat each other so badly
(08/21/98)
The original regular By Cynthia Joyce
Yes, motherhood has mellowed Liz Phair -- and that's not such a bad thing
(08/21/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
"The Rat Pack" premieres; Fox debuts two new sitcoms
(08/21/98)
21st The 21st Challenge No. 12 Results By Charlie Varon and Jim Rosenau
What does HTTP://WWW stand for? (08/21/98)
Books Reviewed by Laura Miller
"After Silence" by Nancy Venable Raine: A powerful, reflective and scrupulously honest account of rape, and
one writer's attempt to come to terms with it
(08/21/98)
Letters Get Clinton back on "Hee Haw" where he belongs
(08/21/98)
Mothers Who Think A melody of his own making
By Beth Kephart
My child needs me too much
(08/21/98)
Money Bull marketing
By Anita Bartholomew
While Wade Cook rides high on lucrative investment seminars, its
customers' portfolios take a tumble
(08/21/98)
Today in Newsreal
False Witness: Part Five By Michael Haddigan and Murray Waas
Looting the temple of justice: Why there will never be a Whitewater Report from Ken Starr
(08/21/98)
Salon editorial By David Talbot
Enough: It's time for the American system to usher Ken Starr from the stage
(08/21/98)
Did Bill wag the dog? By David Corn
After Clinton called out the warplanes, Beltway skeptics said they'd already seen the movie
(08/21/98)
Terrorism experts question U.S. air strikes By Harry Jaffe, Jeff Stein and Lori Leibovich
Experts say bombings unlikely to help
(08/21/98)
Salon Recommends Salon recommends the best in books, music, movies, TV (08/21/98)
Wanderlust Oh when the gays come dancing in By Rebecca Bryant
The physical -- and emotional -- revelations of Amsterdam's Gay Games V
(08/21/98)
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THURSDAY
Aug. 20, 1998
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Today in 21st
Suicide watch on the Net By David Cassel
When chat room participants say they're going to kill themselves, what should service providers do?
(08/20/98)
Wired: The book By Andrew Leonard
A former Wired insider
lands a contract to tell the
magazine's rise-and-fall saga
(08/20/98)
Books Reviewed by Etelka Lohoczsy
"Tongue First: Adventures in Physical Culture " by Emily Jenkins: A clear-eyed account of the author's descent into pure physicality --
from sex and snorting heroin to sleeping and shopping (08/20/98)
Today in Entertainment:
Blade Reviewed by Charles Taylor
I'm gonna git you, suckhead: Despite a thin plot and thick directing, "Blade" is a bloody good time
(08/20/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
Homer and Marge do it in public; Koppel's still in the slammer
(08/20/98)
Today in Mothers Who Think:
An affair to remember
By Nell Bernstein
President Clinton is trying desperately to salvage his reputation. Monica Lewinsky has lost hers forever
(08/20/98)
First family on the couch
By Lori Leibovich
Therapists say President Clinton's psychological problems run deep --
and Hillary's and Chelsea's are just beginning
(08/20/98)
Media Circus Repeat offender
By Tom Mashberg
A fellow Boston newsman offers a scathing obituary for disgraced Boston Globe columnist
Mike Barnicle, after he was finally scraped from the newspaper's hull
(08/20/98)
Letters "Walk like a man"
(08/20/98)
Today in Newsreal:
Hellfire from the right
By Harry Jaffe
The right wing is in full attack mode
(08/20/98)
Letter from Baton Rouge
By Jennifer Moses
It is between him and his God: Down here in the Bible Belt, folks say, "Sex and lying? So what else is new?"
(08/20/98)
Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling
Political system saved! No
more governing
(08/20/98)
Today in Wanderlust:
The view from Japan By Dave McCombs
It's the economy, not the morality
(08/20/98)
Everest controversy: DeWalt's latest response By Weston DeWalt
The co-author of "The Climb" responds to Jon Krakauer's most recent comments in Salon about the Everest tragedy of May 10, 1996
(08/20/98)
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WEDNESDAY
Aug. 19, 1998
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21st A bug too far By Janelle Brown
In Ultima Online, fed-up players carry a crusade from the fantasy world into a real-life courtroom
(08/19/98)
Sneaks Reviewed by Carolyn McConnell
"The Improvised Woman" by Marcelle Clements: A well-researched, if occasionally overheated, examination of what
it means to be a single woman at the end of the century
(08/19/98)
Today in Entertainment:
Sharps and Flats
New music from Silkworm,
Rasputina, Dr. John, MC Lyte, Randy Scruggs and Geri Allen
(08/19/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
Mom fights Internet bogeyman in cable movie "Every Mother's
Worst Fear"
Unzipped Beatings, eatings and other ass-candy By Courtney Weaver
The sweet, lurid world inside a sex club
(08/19/98)
Mothers Who Think Clinton's silvery web of words By Katie Roiphe
Once again, the president teased us and left us hanging
(08/19/98)
Today in Newsreal:
He should stay By Kate Moses
Hillary should decide whether Clinton stays in office
(08/19/98)
He should go By Andrew Ross
Clinton is morally corrupt and therefore must go
(08/19/98)
Letters Starr/Clinton/Hale (choose one) is a scumbag! Readers debate
(08/19/98)
Wanderlust The view from Europe
Salon correspondents in Amsterdam, Paris and Munich report on the local reaction to President Clinton's speech,
the president's Achilles penis and other reactions
(08/19/98)
The K Chronicles By Keith Knight
Incoming! Saving Pvt. Butterfly
(08/19/98)
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TUESDAY
Aug. 18, 1998
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Today in Entertainment:
Home Movies Invitation to a lynching By Charles Taylor
The trial that ended capital punishment in England
(08/18/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
Women's cable network's premieres: Midlife crises and
turkey-baster babies
(08/18/98)
21st Master of allusion By Scott McLemee
A philosopher creates a video game about Las Vegas
(08/18/98)
Sneaks Reviewed by Peter Kurth
"The World According to Eve" by Cullen Murphy: Is the Bible demeaning to women? In this smart, eye-opening book,
the author sorts through both history and contemporary feminist
scholarship
(08/18/98)
Ask Camille By Camille Paglia
I serviced the president and all I got was this lousy Martha's Vineyard souvenir
(08/18/98)
Letters Mount McKinley climber weighs in on Everest fight
(08/18/98)
Media Circus Under the Covers By James Poniewozik
It's a very, very merry Testimoniday in Punditland, as the talking heads pick over what's left of the Bill-Monica-Ken scandal
(08/18/98)
Mothers Who Think
Wild Things By Polly Shulman
Finding your inner ape: The books in Peter Dickinson's children's adventure series "The Kin" not only look at what life was like for the first humans -- they also explore what makes us human
(08/18/98)
Today in Newsreal:
Clinton takes the offensive By Murray Waas
Clinton reportedly takes tough line with Starr. The first lady urges an aggressive strategy after the president finally reveals details of the Lewinsky affair to her (08/18/98)
What they're saying By Lori Leibovich and Dawn MacKeen
Historians, media critics, feminists and political scientists react to President Clinton's day of reckoning (08/18/98)
Story Minute By Carol Lay
Tomorrow's paper today
(08/18/98)
Wanderlust
The mother of all road trips By Melanie Goldman
Bouncing, climbing and kayaking through Chile to win the Camel Trophy
(08/18/98)
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MONDAY
AUGUST 17, 1998
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New life for old buzzwords By Scott Rosenberg
"Interactive
Excellence" argues for new standards to make sense of the media onslaught
(08/17/98)
Today in Entertainment:
Women are from Venus, men are from Vegas By Joyce Millman
ABC's girl-talk show "The View" and HBO's "Rat Pack" movie have more in common than you think
(08/17/98)
Mrs. Peel, we're needed Reviewed by Charles Taylor
The new "Avengers" movie fails, but video
comes to the rescue
(08/17/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
Buffy and Angel in the sack; Miss Teen USA
(08/17/98)
Mothers Who Think No baby on board By Pagan Kennedy
A non-parent explains how being an environmentalist, and a brush with her own
mortality, made her decide not to become a mom
(08/17/98)
Today in Newsreal:
False Witness, Part Three
By Murray Waas
The $50,000 lie: The Whitewater case wasn't the only time David Hale invoked Bill Clinton's name -- falsely -- to help himself
(08/17/98)
False Witness, Part Four
By Murray Waas
Whitewater's untold story: In an exclusive interview, William Watt, a key witness in Kenneth Starr's Whitewater probe, charges that Starr's investigators ignored information he provided them which undermined their case against President Clinton
(08/17/98)
Walk like a man
By Ned Stafford
A fed-up American offers common-sense advice for our nation's beleagured leader (08/14/98)
Books Reviewed by Stephanie Zacharek
"The Museum Guard" by Howard Norman: From the author of "The Bird Artist," a ruminative novel, set
during World War II, about a woman's obsessive identification with a
painting.
(08/17/98)
Letters "Babywise" makes readers cry
(08/17/98)
This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
Why we need a Newt-cam
(08/17/98)
Today in Wanderlust:
The truth about guidebooks
By Dawn McKeen
That 1998 guide you just bought has all the latest information, right? Wrong.
(08/17/98)
Everest Debate, Round Two
By Jon Krakauer
The author of "Into Thin Air" disputes Weston DeWalt's recent comments, and reflects on luck and heroism on Everest
(08/14/98)
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FRIDAY
Aug. 14, 1998
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Newsreal Taking care of David Hale By Murray Waas
A Salon exclusive investigative report looks into how the key
Whitewater witness secretly hooked up with a prominent conservative
attorney, who helped launch an anti-Clinton project
(08/14/98)
Wanderlust Salon Exclusive: Everest debate, Round Two By Weston DeWalt
The co-author of "The Climb" counters Jon Krakauer's claims and questions the role of media in high-risk, extreme sports
(08/14/98)
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THURSDAY
Aug. 13, 1998
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Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling
Read "Huck
Finn," go to jail
(08/13/98)
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WEDNESDAY
Aug. 12, 1998
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Newsreal Special Report: False witness
By Murray Waas
Key Kenneth Starr witness David Hale's strategy for getting out of legal trouble: Blame President Clinton. Part One of a Salon investigative series on the untold story of Whitewater
(08/12/98)
The K Chronicles By Keith Knight
Ooh la la! Real French fries at le Mickey D's
(08/12/98)
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TUESDAY
Aug. 11, 1998
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Lovers and
Writers By Garrison Keillor
Who has time to be a writer?
(08/11/98)
Story Minute By Carol Lay
Judgment days
(08/11/98)
This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
Journalistic
mea culpas
(08/11/98)
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MONDAY
Aug. 10, 1998
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Newsreal Democrats running scared
By Jonathan Broder
Zippergate presents the minority party with a no-win situation this fall
(08/10/98)
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FRIDAY
Aug. 7, 1998
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Today in Entertainment:
Snake Eyes Reviewed by Stephanie Zacharek
No dice: Brian De Palma rolls a loser with "Snake Eyes"
(08/07/98)
Acting weird By Elgy Gillespie
Nicholas Cage talks about selling imperfection
(08/07/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
Did you ever notice? ... Jerry Seinfeld returns to stand-up in
HBO special
(08/07/98)
21st The 21st Challenge No. 12: HTTP say what? By Charlie Varon and Jim Rosenau
Explain that acronym -- win a prize! (08/07/98)
Books Reviewed by Jonathan Miles
"Tomato Red" by Daniel Woodrell: In this "country-noir" novel, a vaguely threatening man insinuates
himself into the lives of three people in a skanky Ozarks hamlet
(08/07/98)
Letters Readers face off on Paglia's "Swinging with the sodomites"
(08/07/98)
Media Circus Steal this leak! By Cynthia Cotts
In a rare First Amendment victory for the press, a D.C. court says reporters can use purloined information
(08/07/98)
Mothers Who Think Second Thoughts
By Sallie Tisdale
Crossing to safety : I've never gone back to the lake of my girlhood, unwilling to break the spell those summers cast on me
(08/07/98)
Money Hip! Hip! Hooray! Anyone remember who we're boycotting today?
By Kevin Kelleher
Boycotts are more effective than ever -- but the public's role in them is becoming increasingly irrelevant
(08/07/98)
Newsreal Click here for Viagra (or other drugs) By Greg Critser
It used to take a real doctor to issue a prescription -- before the Web
(08/07/98)
Salon Recommends Salon recommends the best in books, music, movies and TV (08/07/98)
Today in Wanderlust:
Salon Exclusive By Weston DeWalt
Everest controversy continues: Weston DeWalt responds
to Jon Krakauer
(08/07/98)
Salon Exclusive By Jon Krakauer
Everest controversy continues: Jon Krakauer rebuts Weston DeWalt's response
(08/07/98)
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THURSDAY
Aug. 6, 1998
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21st Is it sex, or is it art? By Janelle Brown
In Austria, right-wingers take aim at a Net arts group for peddling porn
(08/06/98)
Today in Books:
Sneaks Reviewed by Lance Gould
"Rogue Ambassador" by Smith Hempstone: This boisterous memoir, from the Bush administration's ambassador
to Kenya, brims with offensive remarks about blacks, Jews, women -- you
name it (08/06/98)
The mother of masochism By Molly Weatherfield
Eulogy for the mysterious woman who wrote "Story of O" (08/06/98)
Today in Entertainment:
Nights of Cabiria Reviewed by Stephanie Zacharek
The little tramp: Giulietta Masina glows as a Chaplinesque prostitute in Fellini's
newly restored classic
(08/06/98)
The Decline of Western Civilization Part III Reviewed by Mark Athitakis
The damned: Almost two decades after she documented the L.A. punk scene, Penelope Spheeris returns to find its legacy -- and finds no legacy at all
(08/06/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
Ted Koppel in prime time; Seinfeld on "Letterman"
(08/06/98)
Mothers Who Think
By Katie Allison Granju
Getting wise to "Babywise": Does God want your baby to cry?
(08/06/98)
Media Circus
If elected, I promise more girlie shows at the state fair! By Peter Kurth
Ridiculous joke or subversive political statement? The media -- and the public -- can't decide how to treat 79-year-old farmer Fred Tuttle's bizarre campaign for the Senate
(08/06/98)
Letters GOP leaders don't have immoral affairs; pro and con on Olestra
(08/06/98)
Newsreal Just do it, Bill
By Fred Branfman
The president should tell the truth
(08/06/98)
Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling
Could you follow Bob's health regimen?
(08/06/98)
Wanderlust Over Africa By Maryalicia Post
An open-cockpit ride in a reproduction 1935 plane
(08/06/98)
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WEDNESDAY
AUG 05, 1998
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21st Will the Asian crisis end Silicon Valley's boom? By Andrew Leonard
When the chips are down in Asia, the U.S. economy has a hard time escaping the pain (08/05/98)
Books Reviewed by Charles Taylor
"Team Rodent" by Carl Hiaasen: A hilarious and venomous pamphlet, from the well-known thriller
writer, about Disney's pervasive influence on American culture
(08/05/98)
Today in Entertainment:
Sharps and Flats
Reviews of new music from the Squirrel Nut Zippers, Tommy Womack,
Rufus Wainwright, Alpha Blondy and Tiny Town
(08/05/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
Drew Carey Americanizes "Whose Line Is it Anyway?"
Unzipped The kindest cut By Courtney Weaver
Why do men want to grope their hairstylists?
(08/05/98)
Mothers Who Think Time For One Thing By Mollie Brownstein
A thigh of relief: Summertime -- and the livin' is easier if your legs don't rub together
(08/05/98)
Media Circus Under the Covers
By James Poniewozik
The autocrat of the coffee table: TV Guide, America's favorite coaster, becomes history in spite of itself
(08/05/98)
Newsreal Clinton's sexual scorched-earth plan By Jonathan Broder and Harry Jaffe
The White House may be ready to declare a "total war" on Congress over the Lewinsky case (08/05/98)
Letters Was the U.S. justified in censoring WWII? Plus: Salon correction policy clarified
(08/05/98)
Wanderlust
Insider's guide to Paris By David Downie
Our man in Paris reveals the hottest places to eat, stay and play
(08/05/98)
The K Chronicles By Keith Knight
The
silence of the hams
(08/05/98)
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TUESDAY
Aug. 4, 1998
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Today in Entertainment:
Home Movies Tiara trials By Charles Taylor
"Roman Holiday" and "Princess Caraboo" (08/04/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
Elmore Leonard's "Maximum Bob" debuts as ABC summer series
(08/04/98)
21st The future is now -- and then By Etelka Lehoczky
Professional "futurists" see a golden tomorrow -- but they don't love computers
(08/04/98)
Books Reviewed by Stephanie
Zacharek
"Viper Rum" by Mary Karr: From the author of "The Liar's Club," a book of poetry that's
filled with humor, aggressive vitality and a hovering veil of despair
(08/04/98)
Ask Camille By Camille Paglia
Swinging with the
Sodomites: liberal elitists and intersexuals
(08/04/98)
Letters Black women and feminism: Readers sound off
(08/04/98)
Mothers Who Think
One step at a time By Lori Leibovich
Why some stepfamilies flourish and others fail
(08/04/98)
Newsreal New JFK death film By Scott McLemee
The digital version of the Zapruder home movie is still inconclusive (08/04/98)
Story Minute By Carol Lay
Pocket Man
(08/04/98)
Wanderlust
A midsummer night's bacchanal in Moscow By Jeffrey Tayler
Inhibitions -- and underclothes -- are tossed into the air on Ladies Night at the Hungry Duck
(08/04/98)
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MONDAY
AUG. 3, 1998
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21st Let's Get This Straight By
Scott Rosenberg
Which should we be
more worried about -- malicious hackers or careless software developers?
(08/03/98)
Today in Entertainment:
Queertoons By Joyce Millman
Gay-positive messages and campy humor find a TV home in "South Park" and other
animated upstarts
(08/03/98)
Television By Joyce
Millman
"Hercules" and "Xena" begin nightly cable runs: Does it get any better than this?
(08/03/98)
Left Hook By Joe Conanson
Are there stained dresses in the GOP's closet?
(08/03/98)
Mothers Who Think
Crossing borders By Rigoberta Menchu
The famed Mayan activist whose mother and brother were tortured and killed reflects on the family -- and village -- she lost in Guatemala
(08/03/98)
Newsreal Author asks when did Jones and Clinton meet?
By Lori Leibovich
Mystery at the Excelsior Hotel
(08/03/98)
Books Reviewed by
David Futrelle
"Steal This Dream" by Larry Sloman: This oral biography of Abbie Hoffman is both fascinating and hideously depressing
(08/03/98)
Letters Mormonism incorrectly characterized; multiple relationships defended
(08/03/98)
This Modern World By Tom
Tomorrow
Charlton Heston, God of Guns
(08/03/98)
Wanderlust Coming down
By Dwight Garner
What really happened on Mount Everest that fatal May day two years
ago? For the first time, Jon Krakauer talks about the bitter controversy
swirling around "Into Thin Air" (08/03/98)
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