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MONDAY
Nov. 30, 1998
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"We were burning" Reviewed by Andrew Leonard
A new book tells us to forget about Japan Inc. -- Japanese entrepreneurs led the high-tech consumer electronic revolution (11/30/98)
Today in Entertainment:
Home Movies Book worm By Charles Taylor
"Matilda": A smart, funny fantasy for bookworms of all ages
(11/30/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
First reindeer sighting of the season: Classic "Rudolph" gets its annual airing (11/30/98)
Ivory Tower Hell no! We won't grade! By Sean McMeekin
Will the upcoming strike by University of California graduate teaching assistants raise them from their serflike status -- or spell their eventual doom? (11/30/98)
Mothers Who Think Go with the flow By Jenn Shreve
A small, vocal group of women wants you to toss out your pads, tampons and liners and go -- no joke -- reusable
(11/30/98)
Newsreal A conversation with Jonathan Pollard
By Walter Ruby
Betrayed by Gingrich and Netanyahu, the convicted spy for Israel blasts the politics behind his latest failed hope for clemency (11/30/98)
Today in Books:
Marriage as a revolutionary act By Carol Lloyd
Andrew Sullivan on the love that dares to speak its name (11/30/98)
Uncle Andrew's cabin By Peter Kurth
How did a moralizing, self-centered Tory named Andrew Sullivan become the spokesman for gay America?
(11/30/98)
Sneak Peeks Reviewed by Daniel Reitz
"Let Nothing You Dismay" by Mark O'Donnell: From the self-appointed court jester of gay literature, a novel
about one unemployed Manhattanite's marathon holiday party-going
(11/30/98)
Letters Readers blast Horowitz's defense of Pinochet; media biased against Israel; a grad stands up for the Radcliffe Publishing Course (11/30/98)
This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
Weird stuff is happening to my beloved nation! (11/30/98)
Wanderlust Afoot in the South African bush By Lance Gould
A New Yorker ventures on a walking safari into the wild world of wildebeest, Cape buffalo and dung beetles
(11/30/98)
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WEDNESDAY
Nov. 25, 1998
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Today in 21st:
The Net never forgets
By J.D. Lasica
Everything you've ever posted online could come back to haunt you someday
(11/25/98)
The 21st Challenge No. 16: Misdirected love notes By Charlie
Varon and Jim Rosenau
Answer the mystery e-mail -- win a prize
(11/25/98)
Sneak Peeks Reviewed by Peter Kurth
"Uncollecting Cheever" by Anita Miller: A partisan blow-by-blow account of a literary feud: When more than 60
unpublished John Cheever stories are discovered, who owns the rights?
(11/25/98)
Today in Entertainment:
"A Bug's Life" Reviewed by Janelle Brown
With it's much-anticipated follow-up to "Toy Story," Pixar conquers in the animated bug battle
(11/25/98)
"Home Fries" Reviewed by Charles Taylor
Hot buns in the oven: Drew Barrymore is sweet as cherry pie as a pregnant burger-joint clerk in the charming screwball comedy "Home Fries"
(11/25/98)
"Storefront Hitchcock" Reviewed by Mark Athitakis
Jonathan Demme's mesmerizing documentary brings an unlikely pop singer to the silver screen
(11/25/98)
"Babe: Pig in the City" Reviewed by Stephanie Zacharek
Accidental tourist: The urban adventures of everyone's favorite talking pig makes for one of the most exhilarating films of the year
(11/25/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
A "Xena" marathon for Thanksgiving; "Babylon 5" signs off
(11/25/98)
Today in Ivory Tower
Behind closed doors By Lori Gottlieb
When my favorite professor revealed that he was human, too, I knew I'd never look at him the same way again
(11/25/98)
Debunking the myths of the Puritans By Maria Russo
A revisionist argues that historians have turned the authoritarian, conformist Puritans into reflections of their own complex, Harvard-educated selves (11/25/98)
Media Unspun
By Steve Erickson
Democracy on life support: the cynical Starr hearings were to their Watergate precursors as Jack Kevorkian is to Mother Teresa (11/25/98)
Money The last hurrah for West Coast finance
By Kevin Kelleher
The departure of the last of the titans from San Francisco's biggest
investment bank was marked by a disastrous frat party that time forgot (11/25/98)
Mothers Who Think Thanksgiving By Anne Lamott
If I can muster the love and patience it takes to deal with my mother, does it still count if my hands are trembling with rage?
(11/25/98)
Ask Camille By Camille Paglia
Ken Starr's strange sexual persona
(11/25/98)
Today in Newsreal:
One big happy family By Alan Wolfe
The election was a referendum on morality, after all, but Americans voted for tolerance, not vengeance
(11/25/98)
The "young lady" who got under Kenneth Starr's skin
By Joan Walsh
U.S. Rep. Zoe Lofgren is pressing the independent counsel to think harder about when he learned of Linda Tripp's tapes (11/25/98)
Letters Salon's Starr coverage too partisan; Katharine Weber on New Yorker fiction
(11/25/98)
Wanderlust The Khan men of Agra By Pamela Michael
In India, a moment of trust opens the door to a traveler's richest reward (11/25/98)
Today in Comics:
The K Chronicles By Keith Knight
"Star Trek" trailer trash
(11/25/98)
The Dark Hotel
The party on Russian Hill gets way kinky
(11/25/98)
Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling
Bob's guide to chore avoidance
(11/25/98)
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TUESDAY
Nov. 24, 1998
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Television By Joyce Millman
"NYPD Blue": Goodbye, Smits; "Buffy": Welcome back, Spike
(11/24/98)
Today in 21st:
Strange Web fellows? By Andrew Leonard
What the AOL purchase of Netscape really means
(11/24/98)
21st Log
"Nerds 2.0.1": PBS's all-too-brief history of the Internet (11/24/98)
Brilliant Careers Pryor knowledge By Jill Nelson
Pryor knowledge: The rage, vulnerability and painful honesty
of Richard Pryor's comedy changed American culture forever
(11/24/98)
Sneak Peeks Reviewed by Hank Hyena
"Jails, Hospitals & Hip-Hop and Some People" by Danny Hoch: Tightly wound vignettes about rappers, dancers, prison guards and
other New Yorkers, adapted from this performance artist's high-octane solo
shows
(11/24/98)
Letters Debating Jefferson;
Hitchens' attitude problem; what does perjury mean, anyway?
(11/24/98)
Media Circus Under the Covers By James Poniewozik
What kind of woman reads Playboy? After 45 years, your grandfather's skin magazine is trying to be all things to all groins
(11/24/98)
Mothers Who Think Turkey fry By Jennifer Reese
An old lover taught me the sexiest type of Thanksgiving cooking and how to do something sacrilegious and preposterous to a national symbol (11/24/98)
Newsreal Letter from San Francisco By Lisa Margonelli
Twenty years after Dan White murdered George Moscone and Harvey Milk, his old neighborhood is still spawning leaders who divide by race -- but these days they're Asian, not white
(11/24/98)
Story Minute By Carol Lay
Try the bold
new stress-reduction tool -- kidnapping!
(11/24/98)
Wanderlust The rabbis of Bangkok, Part Two By Douglas A. Konecky
A live sex show reveals more than flesh to an American musician in Thailand
(11/24/98)
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MONDAY
Nov. 23, 1998
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Today in 21st:
Thought-activated computing By Sam Witt and Sean Durkin
The brain/computer interface becomes real -- as a boon for the paralyzed (11/23/98)
21st Log
Linus Torvalds, geek magnet (11/23/98)
Today in Entertainment:
On Television By Joyce Millman
Heart of "Blue": Can the best cop show on television survive without Jimmy Smits?
(11/23/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
Letterman's prime-time anniversary special; Ted Kennedy on
"Biography" (11/23/98)
Right On! Dictator of choice By David Horowitz
Looking back now, we can see that Pinochet was good for Chile, whereas another dictator, Castro, is bad for his country (11/23/98)
Ivory Tower It's all about parties -- and the bottom line By Jason Zinoman
Every year the Radcliffe Publishing Course inducts another group of recent graduates into the glamour and drudgery of publishing (11/23/98)
Mothers Who Think Faraway, so close By Debra Gwartney
Coming home causes my oldest daughter to withdraw into corners,
turn her face, and back up toward the door until she can run away again
(11/23/98)
Newsreal
By Samuel G. Freedman
Why "Birthright Israel" can't work: Diaspora in America is better than physical danger and religious infighting in Zion (11/06/98)
Books Reviewed by Norah Vincent
"I Will Bear Witness" by Victor Klemperer: A literate and harrowing account, from a German Jew who escaped being sent to a concentration camp, of life in Nazi-era Dresden
(11/23/98)
Letters Does South Africa really need the Web? Kinsley vs. Lehman: The repartee continues
(11/23/98)
This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
What piece of kitsch '60s decor does Clinton most
resemble? (11/23/98)
Wanderlust The rabbis of Bangkok By Douglas A. Konecky
A traveling Jewish band from California meets a trio of Hasidic Jews in the teeming city of Live Sex Shows and Thai Full Body Massage?
(11/23/98)
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FRIDAY
Nov. 20, 1998
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Today in Entertainment:
"Celebrity" Reviewed by Charles Taylor
Star dreck: As usual, Woody Allen packs his latest movie with celebrities, proving that his mockery of our fame-obsessed culture is just a put-on
(11/20/98)
"Gods and Monsters" Reviewed by Jonathan Lethem
Scream queen: Ian McKellen gives a virtuoso performance as early Hollywood's only ecstatically "out" gay director
(11/20/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
Christopher Reeve in "Rear Window"; a mad, time-twisting "X-Files" (11/20/98)
Today in 21st:
The copyright boomerang By Peter Wayner
A new copyright law bans tools that "circumvent" copy protections -- is cutting and pasting illegal? (11/20/98)
Court puts new Net censorship rules on hold -- for now By Janelle Brown
First ruling in "CDA II" case goes the way of law's opponents
(11/20/98)
21st Log
"Star Wars" trailer bootleggers strike back
(11/20/98)
Sneak Peeks Reviewed by David Bowman
"Soft!" by Rupert Thomson: A comic novel about a British advertising executive who promotes
his new product -- a soft-drink called "Soft!" -- through subliminal
brainwashing (11/20/98)
Ivory Tower The breakdown of consciousness By Paige Arthur
Confronted by the discoveries of artificial intelligence, some philosophers are questioning the very minds that keep their profession afloat
(11/20/98)
Letters Poniewozik on target with latest media attack; talkin' 'bout Pete Townshend (11/20/98)
Mothers Who Think These babies rule By Andrew Leonard
A 4-year-old and her dad give the new "Rugrats" brand extension a big
thumbs-up
(11/20/98)
Money The Reluctant Capitalist
By Heather Chaplin
My guilty secret: Some people buy porn; I like to buy make-up -- in private
(11/20/98)
Today in News:
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Starr
By Gary Kamiya
When the real Kenneth Starr finally stood up before the House, he turned out to have a split personality
(11/20/98)
Starr Wars
By Joan Walsh
The Democrats strike back
(11/20/98)
Nothing has changed
Compiled by Lori Leibovich and Fiona Morgan
The consensus of political experts is that no minds were changed by Starr's day in court
(11/20/98)
Starr on the stand
Uncut transcripts from the floor of the House Judiciary Committee
(11/20/98)
Dear Ken
The full text of ethics advisor Sam Dash's letter of resignation to Kenneth Starr
(11/20/98)
Starr speaks
The full text of independent counsel Kenneth Starr's House Judiciary Committee testimony
(11/20/98)
The Dark Hotel Inside the CIA sex and drugs safehouse; Dorothy and Justine's secrets; Burroughs and the Mayans
(11/20/98)
Salon Recommends History as relayed through words, song, images and dance; plus, the week's best in books, movies, music and more (11/20/98)
Wanderlust This week in travel
A selective guide to the week's travel-related news
(11/20/98)
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THURSDAY
Nov. 19, 1998
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Today in 21st:
Let's Get This Straight By Scott Rosenberg
Windows on the wane? Open source and information appliances squeeze the PC from both sides
(11/19/98)
21st Log "Star Wars" trailer sneaks online
(11/19/98)
Sneak Peeks Reviewed by Peter Kurth
"Road-Side Dog" by Czeslaw Milosz: From the Polish poet and Nobel Prize laureate, a grab-bag
collection of poems, essays and fables about politics, religion, literature
and life (11/19/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
ABC and Fox: The world's worst sweeps programming disasters (11/19/98)
Mothers Who Think Second Thoughts By Sallie Tisdale
A modest proposal: Hurricane Mitch offers U.S. troops the chance not to show force, but to help others -- especially those we've hurt before
(11/19/98)
Media Circus
By Susan Lehman
Boy story? A former editor charges that the New Yorker's fiction has gone off the deep end of the testosterone scale
(11/19/98)
Letters The New Yorker clueless about the Web; readers weigh in on Salon's partnership with Barnes and Noble; Canadian rockers set the record straight
(11/19/98)
Today in Newsreal:
Same Old Party By Joshua Micah Marshall
New leadership can't mend the rifts among Republicans in Congress (11/19/98)
Reply to C.D. Ellison By David Horowitz
It's time for blacks to have a two-party system, too (11/19/98)
Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling
Hollywood parties you can have at home!
(11/19/98)
Urge "At Home with
the Marquis de Sade" Reviewed by Molly Weatherfield
Sade off: The man who became history's most notorious pervert was
no picnic to live with, either
(11/19/98)
Wanderlust Body talk By Dawn MacKeen
Sometimes what our gestures say is not what we mean. International business traveler Roger Axtell tells Salon that he has learned this truth the hard way
(11/19/98)
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WEDNESDAY
Nov. 18, 1998
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Today in 21st:
The return of the queen of cyberpunk By Andrew Leonard
Science fiction novelist Pat Cadigan watches her imagined futures turn real
(11/18/98)
21st Log
A Monica-free impeachment Web site
(11/18/98)
Sneak Peeks Reviewed by Beth
Wolfensberger Singer
"Hunger" by Lan Samantha Chang: A memorable first book -- a novella and five stories -- about
Chinese-Americans trying to find their places in the U.S.
(11/18/98)
Today in Entertainment:
Sharps and Flats
Reviews of new CDs by Jewel, Roberto Alagna and Angela Gheorghiu,
John Lennon and others
(11/18/98)
Meet Joe Black Reviewed by Laura Miller
Slow Death: The Grim Reaper mingles with a toothsome heiress in the ponderous "Meet Joe Black"
(11/18/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
Talking B.H. blues: Luke "Dylan" Perry returns to "90210"
(11/18/98)
Today in Ivory Tower
Historiographic revisionism By Christopher Shea
DNA evidence shows that Jefferson fathered at least one of Sally Hemings' children, and his academic defenders are scurrying to cover their tracks
(11/18/98)
What do Jefferson and Clinton have in common (besides randyness)? By Christopher Hitchens
Answer: They're both protected by a group of credulous historians
(11/18/98)
Camille On Campus A tale of two Blooms By Camille Paglia
Allan and Harold Bloom dared to buck the conformity and cowardice of the academy
(11/18/98)
Media Unspun
By Steve Erickson
Starr dust, pundit bust: The independent counsel will crash and burn on Thursday -- and the humiliated pundits will be too afraid to say anything about it until the polls come in (11/18/98)
Mothers Who Think Presidential paws
"Dear Socks, Dear Buddy: Kids' Letters to the First Pets" by Hillary Rodham Clinton: what kids want to know about Buddy and Socks
(11/18/98)
Today in Newsreal:
Toppling Saddam By Frank Smyth
Clinton wants a new government in Baghdad, but he and the Iraqi opposition are unlikely to be up to the task
(11/18/98)
A dozen questions Congress should ask Kenneth Starr By David Talbot, Murray Waas and Joan Walsh
(11/18/98)
Letters What should have happened to Pinochet; California execution; don't slander the Catholic church
(11/18/98)
Wanderlust On the road with the Smokejumpers: Part Three By The King Teen
Sold out in San Diego, boffo in Bakersfield -- the band's odyssey ends on an up note (11/18/98)
The K Chronicles By Keith Knight
Keith Knight: My first midlife crisis
(11/18/98)
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TUESDAY
Nov. 17, 1998
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Television By Joyce Millman
Billy Bob Thornton meets Hank Hill; movie tough guy Lee Marvin
profiled
(11/17/98)
21st Top of the frag heap By Janelle Brown
Can one Quake player's pixel-pounding success turn gaming into a true pro sport?
(11/17/98)
Brilliant Careers His generation By Stephanie Zacharek
Pete Townshend didn't die before he got old -- he kept on living
(11/17/98)
Books Reviewed by Charles Taylor
"Hip Hop America" by Nelson George: A survey of hip hop's history and cultural influence, from a
talented writer whose arguments with the music never overwhelm his love for
it
(11/17/98)
Dear Mr. Blue By Garrison Keillor
What if the shame of whoring around becomes as intoxicating as the clandestine sex?
(11/17/98)
Left Hook By Joe Conason
The GOP goes "liberal": Politicians with such multiple defects ordinarily would be handed House leadership only after Saddam Hussein and O.J. Simpson had turned the job down
(11/17/98)
Letters Michael Kinsley on Slate's Microsoft trial coverage; why Newt mattered; Muhammad Ali's draft-dodging
(11/17/98)
Media Circus Under the Covers By James Poniewozik
Pundits to Saddam: Your evil derrière is OURS! When Saddam Hussein canceled our regularly scheduled war, Sam "Strangelove" Donaldson and his hotblooded colleagues practically climbed into the F-16s themselves to finish the job
(11/17/98)
Mothers Who Think Drama Queen Contestants
This won't hurt a bit: This month's Drama Queen candidates tell tales of their most hellish experiences at the gynecologist's office (11/17/98)
Today in Newsreal:
Brother on brother By Murray Waas
How Ken Starr's key Whitewater witness tried to get his brother to lie against President Clinton
(11/17/98)
The mark of Cain: a tale of two brothers By Murray Waas
Though they traveled the same path from the family dirt farm through law school, the Hale brothers turned out different as night and day
(11/17/98)
Story Minute By Carol Lay
Carol Lay: "Gaslight" games you won't want to play
(11/17/98)
Wanderlust Orchid ice cream? By Eric Hansen
An aficionado journeys to Turkey to discover the birthplace of this aphrodisiac treat
(11/17/98)
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MONDAY
Nov. 16, 1998
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Today in 21st:
Soweto online By Andrew Leonard
Where millions don't have plumbing or telephones,
who needs the Net?
(11/16/98) 21st Log
Transmeta's patent buzz (11/16/98)
Today in Entertainment:
Home Movies By Charles
Taylor
Character: from sweaty Nixon to gentleman gambler, Philip Baker Hall is a name
you don't recognize, and an actor you won't forget
(11/16/98) Television By Joyce Millman
A "Melrose Place" wedding; female mud wrestling on (where else?) "Ally McBeal" (11/16/98)
Mothers Who Think Wild Thing By Polly Shulman
Things are not quite what they seem: Themes of transformation
populate three weirdly hypnotic children's books in which a
little girl grows into a green monster and a baby bug becomes a cheese doodle.
(11/16/98) Today in Newsreal:
The whaling that wasn't
By David Neiwert
Environmentalists and Indians clash over whether gray whales matter more than native culture and treaty rights (11/06/98)
Target: Saddam By Jeff Stein
The goal is to bring him down this time, says David Kay, who led the first U.N. inspection team in Iraq
(11/06/98)
Paula Jones lawsuit settled A Salon Staff Report
Clinton coughs up $850,000, but no apologies
(11/06/98)
Books Reviewed by Katherine Wolff
"A Slant of Sun: One Child's Courage" by Beth Kephart: A graceful and moving memoir of motherhood, from a writer whose
young son was diagnosed with a disorder linked to autism
(11/16/98)
Letters Microsoft's tyranny over the software industry; tired of salacious sex; almost brilliant start for Brilliant Careers
(11/16/98) This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
"The American people" and other lies (11/16/98) WanderlustAnother Africa By Chinua Achebe
Beyond the stereotypes and clichés, a photographer and writer journey into the heart of the continent
(11/16/98)
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FRIDAY
Nov. 13, 1998
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Today in Entertainment: Hard Core Logo Reviewed Andrew O'Hehir
Public image limited: Bruce McDonald's stirring mockumentary paints a dark but vivid portrait of one band's wavering devotion to its punk identity
(11/13/98) Living Out Loud Reviewed by Charles Taylor
Blue romance: Holly Hunter and Danny DeVito nearly find love in the bittersweet comedy "Living Out Loud"
(11/13/98) Television By Joyce Millman
Touched by a diva: Celine and Wynonna on "Angel" sweeps episode (11/13/98)
Today in 21st:
"Griffin & Sabine's" letters go digital By Scott Rosenberg
"Ceremony of Innocence" CD brings a postcard romance to your screen (11/13/98)
The 21st Challenge No. 15 Results By Charlie Varon and Jim
Rosenau
Haiku for telemarketers
(11/13/98) Sneaks Reviewed by Sylvia Brownrigg
"Dawn Powell: A Biography " by Tim Page: A compelling and sympathetic biography of the brilliant and
recently rediscovered satirical novelist of the '30 and '40s (11/13/98)
Ivory Tower Jane Eyre, to go By Victoria Olsen
Internet plagiarism: Where the term papers are free and the words are misspelled
(11/13/98)
Letters Alternatives to Horowitz's theories on black voting patterns; Arab Americans were right to protest "The Siege"
(11/13/98)
Today in News:
No mercy
By Mark Herman
California Gov. Pete Wilson is unlikely to grant clemency to a Thai national on death row, despite appeals from jurors, lawyers and the warden of San Quentin
(11/13/98) Beware of the black CON-servative
By C. D. Ellison
An African-American Republican talks back to David Horowitz
(11/13/98)
The Dark Hotel Programming assassins: George Green's nefarious career with the CIA begins
(11/13/98)
Salon Recommends Bombay musicals and "Octopus Slacks," plus top 10 Salon articles and the
week's best in books, music, movies and more (11/13/98) Wanderlust This week in travel
Wanderlust presents a selective guide to the week's travel-related news
(11/13/98) |
THURSDAY
Nov. 12, 1998
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Today in 21st:
21st Martin Luther, meet Linus Torvalds By Thomas Scoville
Linux and free software challenge the Microsoft papacy
(11/12/98)
21st Log HotWired advertiser sponsors a blackout
(11/12/98)
Today in Books:
Sneaks Reviewed by Hal Hinson
"King of the World" by David Remnick: The new editor of the New Yorker presents a lucid account of how "a gangly kid from Louisville" became "a molder of his age" (11/12/98) From he-man to holy man By Elaine Showalter
In Tom Wolfe's new epic, "A Man in Full," a macho Southern mogul undergoes a spiritual awakening -- and winds up just as selfish as he was before (11/12/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
Pit bull attacks and rogue elephants: Fox's magical November sweeps (11/12/98) Mothers Who Think Word By Word By Anne Lamott
Dark night of the iguana: How my son's pet reptile taught me to love all sentient beings -- and Republicans too
(11/12/98)
Media Circus
By Susan Lehman
A clean Slate at the Microsoft trial: Octogenarian dismal-science practitioner Herb Stein replaces rapier wit Michael Lewis -- hard seats blamed
(11/12/98)
Letters Why a career in academia compares to the plight of Job; plus, Dr. "The Body" Laura, Jesse "The Body" Ventura; aspiring Steven Kings
(11/12/98)
Today in Newsreal:
He can't go home again By Marc Cooper
No matter what the House of Lords decides, former Chilean dictator Augusto
Pinochet is finally being held resonsible for the death of President
Salvador Allende -- and Chilean democracy (11/12/98) The costs of Mitch By Mary Jo McConahay
Can a hurricane threaten the fragile new democracies of Central America? (11/12/98) Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling
God-Man defeats Dr. Moral-Relativism -- OR DOES HE?!
(11/12/98)
Wanderlust A fiume runs through it By Thom Elkjer
An American on a fly-fishing pilgrimage learns
that in Italy, it's who you know that counts
(11/12/98)
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WEDNESDAY
Nov. 11, 1998
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21st Is there such a thing as a software monopoly? By Mike Romano
Microsoft says no -- and its arguments could provoke changes in the antitrust laws
(11/11/98)
Sneaks Reviewed by Heather Chaplin
"Once Upon a Number" by John Allen Paulos: The author of "Innumeracy" charmingly attempts to bridge the gulf that separates literary and mathematical culture
(11/11/98) Today in Entertainment:
Sharps and Flats
Reviews of new albums by Beck, Seal, Alanis Morissette
(11/11/98) Bringing it all back home By Robert Levine
New collections from Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen confirm what
bootleggers have known for years -- that these artists have been sitting on
some of their best work (even if they didn't think so)
(11/11/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
Dawson and Jen, together again?; "Party of Five" turns 100
(11/11/98)
Today in Ivory Tower
The student stoner dilemma Seven Deadly Sins By Bebe Maddux
The university's hypocritical stance against marijuana can prevent even the best of students from getting an education
(11/11/98) Myths of bingeing Seven Deadly Sins By Sarah Rose
The Binge Myth: What recent studies of university alcoholism won't tell you (11/11/98)
Media Unspun By Steve Erickson
The amazing disappearing Newt: After the Republicans have picked over the carnage of the former speaker's career, Newt will vanish into historical thin air
(11/11/98) Mothers Who Think Is one enough?
By Vivienne Walt
Will China's generation without siblings break away from the one-child rule?
(11/11/98) Ask Camille By Camille Paglia
Can actors (or wrestlers) be great leaders? And does it help if they have names that ring like the hammer blows of Thor?
(11/11/98) Newsreal A day to remember? By Jeff Stein
Police and federal agents brace for violence as anti-abortion forces observe a new "holiday"
(11/11/98) Letters Readers shed no tears over Newt's departure; white women read gay porn, too! (11/11/98) Wanderlust On the road with the Smokejumpers: Part Two By The King Teen
Shotguns and dead bunnies, pizza and beer -- a San Francisco band explores America (11/11/98) The K Chronicles By Keith Knight
The natural wonder of snow
(11/11/98) |
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Nov. 10, 1998
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Television By Joyce Millman
Ken Burns' "Frank Lloyd Wright"; "X-Files" opener post-mortem
(11/10/98)
Today in 21st:
Let's Get This Straight By Scott Rosenberg
Profiles in cluelessness: The New Yorker's portrait of PointCast displays once more the magazine's Internet ignorance (11/10/98) 21st Log
Scientologists lose a round in copyright fight (11/10/98)
Brilliant Careers I hunger for your kiss: The passion of Phil Spector By Mary Elizabeth Williams
How Phil Spector invented teen lust and torment
(11/10/98) Sneaks Reviewed by Georgia
Jones-Davis
"The Hours" by Michael Cunningham: From the author of "A Home at the End of the World," a searching
novel that reimagines Virginia Woolf's life and work
(11/10/98)
Letters Readers rejoice in Kamiya's pundit bashing; better sex starts with libido
(11/10/98) Media Circus Under the Covers By James Poniewozik
Weep and read it: Books are alive, well and as sentimentalized as ever
(11/10/98)
Mothers Who Think Time for One Thing: Anxiety By Jennifer Moses
That persistent, gnawing sense that something, somewhere, is not quite right actually serves a purpose -- it gets me out of bed (11/10/98)
Newsreal Can we talk? By Rebecca Bryant
Gay rights groups should re-think their drive for affirmation at the ballot-box after Tuesday's drubbing
(11/10/98) Story Minute By Carol Lay
Splitsville
(11/10/98)
Wanderlust Tokyo sex wars: Part 2
By Karl Taro Greenfeld
The arrival of 24 "classy ladies" to work in a fledgling nightspot convulses Japan's new demimonde (11/10/98) |
MONDAY
Nov. 9, 1998
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Today in 21st:
Music industry to webcasters: Pay up! By Janelle Brown
Will the new copyright law's rules help Web radio flourish -- or smother the infant medium?
(11/09/98) 21st Log
A costly tour of the Gates mansion (11/09/98)
Today in Entertainment:
On Television By Joyce Millman
Dancing with the Television On: Forget MTV -- Beck, Elvis Costello, Sugar Ray and the Dylans find their place on TV soundtracks
(11/09/98) The Siege By Charles Taylor
Holy terror: Far from being racist, "The Siege" shows how terrorism is used to justify
racism toward Arabs and Muslims
(11/09/98) Television By Joyce Millman
Ally fends off The Copy Guy: Rob Schneider guests on "McBeal" (11/09/98)
Father of urban darkness
By Bob Callahan
Batman creator Bob Kane, who died yesterday, created one of the most sinister -- and typically American -- characters in our literature (11/06/98) Right On! By David Horowitz
Baa baa black sheep: There is no good reason why the black community should vote like the populations of communist countries who lacked the ability to exercise free choice
(11/09/98)
Ivory Tower Is the emperor of queer theory naked? By Etelka Lehoczky
An e-mail prankster fans the flames of controversy in the inner circles of queer studies, but the anticipated war never erupts (11/09/98) Mothers Who Think The last campaign By Erin Aubry
My father was the kind of upright politician who did thankless, largely unquantifiable good works. Unfortunately, the electorate didn't give a damn (11/09/98) Today in Newsreal:
Gingrich, we hardly Newt ye
Jerry Brown, Christopher Hitchens, Maxine Waters, Dan Schnur, David
Horowitz and Mark Hertsgaard sum up the speaker (11/09/98) Newtron bomb
By Bruce Shapiro
Will Gingrich's self-purge save the Republican Party?
(11/06/98) Law professors tell
Congress that impeachment
is unwarranted
Over 430 legal scholars
sign statement, fearing
impeachment process will
"dangerously weaken"
presidency
(11/06/98)
Newt speaks
The speaker of the House
announces his resignation
(11/06/98)
Sneaks Reviewed by Dante Ramos
"Compassion Fatigue" by Susan D. Moeller: Whose fault is it -- the public's, or the media's -- that Americans seem to care less about foreign news coverage?
(11/09/98)
Letters Reactions to Salon's election coverage; Dr. Laura disrobed
(11/09/98) This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
Voter apathy can save the world! (11/09/98)
Wanderlust Tokyo sex wars By Karl Taro Greenfeld
Drug demons and sex junkies in Japan's new demimonde
(11/09/98)
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FRIDAY
Nov. 06, 1998
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Today in Entertainment: Elizabeth Reviewed Laura Miller
(Un)married ... with Kingdom: Shekhar Kapur's "Elizabeth" restrains her passion for men, but exhibits a ravenous appetite for ruling England
(11/06/98) Velvet Goldmine Reviewed by Stephanie Zacharek
The glam that fell to earth: Todd Haynes' flashy ode to the glam-rock era may be 50 percent polyester, but it's full of heart
(11/06/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
"X-Files" season premiere; Chris Noth comes home in "Law & Order" TV movie
(11/06/98)
Today in 21st:
The ghosts in our machines By Andrew Brown
"TechGnosis" traces the secret mysticism that motivates our love-affair with technology (11/06/98)
The god of the information age is a trickster By R.U. Sirius
"TechGnosis" author Erik Davis talks about technology's habit of hoodwinking us
(11/06/98)
21st Log
Microsoft leaks another Linux memo
(11/06/98)
Today in Books:
The Garner Report: November, 1998 By Dwight Garner
A highly subjective, monthly
roundup of upcoming book titles (11/06/98) "Totally, Tenderly, Tragically" Reviewed by Jonathan Lethem
A career's worth of vivid film writing by famous essayist Phillip Lopate on
topics from Jerry Lewis to obscure Iranian directors (11/06/98)
Ivory Tower Out of academia By Annalee Newitz
The shame of academe: one degree, nary a profession
(11/06/98)
Letters Deep thoughts on "Fashionable Nonsense"; are the news media and Hollywood indistinguishable?
(11/06/98)
Mothers Who Think Why can't a woman be more like a chair? By Debra S. Ollivier
And now, from the Paris runways, orthopedic-bondage jewelry, mutant-vegetable heads and furniture chic
(11/06/98)
Money Halloween's hollow spree
By Heather Chaplin
How the season of candy-eating kiddies has become monstrously lucrative
(11/06/98)
Today in News:
Money talks, but voters talk back
By Ellen Miller
Reformers prevail in billion-dollar congressional election
(11/06/98) Body slam
By Micah L. Sifry
Jesse Ventura turned out turned-off voters on Election Day, and upended the nation's political elite
(11/06/98)
The Dark Hotel Dope, booze, girls -- and an evil man behind a one-way window
(11/06/98)
Salon Recommends Salon Recommends: Sheryl Lee finds "the place where fear and eroticism intersect" in "John Carpenter's Vampires"; plus the week's best in books, films and music (11/06/98) Today in Wanderlust:
On the road with the Smokejumpers By The King Teen
What happens when a punk-rockabilly band from San Francisco tours the country in a broken-down Big Orange Van?
(11/06/98) Wanderlust This week in travel
Wanderlust presents a selective guide to the week's travel-related news
(11/06/98)
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THURSDAY
Nov. 5, 1998
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21st Generation byte By Andrew Leonard
"Extra Life" recalls what growing up with computers once was like -- and complains about what it has become
(11/05/98)
Sneaks Reviewed by Beverly Gage
"On the Pill" by Elizabeth Siegel Watkins: Did the advent of the birth control pill really jump-start the
sexual revolution? The author argues that the two may not be as closely
linked as many people think (11/05/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
"World's Most Shocking Moments": More Fox snuff for November sweeps
(11/05/98) Mothers Who Think Second Thoughts By Sallie Tisdale
Should a student be expelled for thought crimes? Students used to have to commit violence to get kicked out of school. Now they just have to write about it
(11/05/98) Media Circus
By Susan Lehman
I wrote about Michiko Kakutani and lived to tell the tale
(11/05/98) Letters NRCC chairman John Linder responds to accusations of dishonesty; readers debate humor of the Holocaust
(11/05/98) Today in Newsreal:
Gone with the windbags By Gary Kamiya
The election took some of the steam out of the Washington Punditocracy's hot air balloon (11/05/98) Mixed mandate By Joan Walsh
Democrats owe their victory to the left -- and the middle
(11/05/98) A resounding moral defeat for the moralizers By Richard Rodriguez
American voters refuse to bow before the high priests of scolding (11/05/98) Key race results
(11/05/98)
Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling
Curious Charley the australopithecine gets drunk!
(11/05/98)
Urge By Rona Marech
Two hard men are good to find: Women's smutty little reading secret is sending black homoerotic literature to the top of the charts
(11/05/98)
Wanderlust Savvy tips for holiday travelers By Dawn MacKeen
When can you actually demand money from an airline? Where can you find low-cost holiday fares? Christopher McGinnis knows
(11/05/98)
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WEDNESDAY
Nov. 4, 1998
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21st Let's Get This Straight By Scott Rosenberg
Microsoft's Halloween scare: A leaked memo outlines the company's strategy against Linux and open source software
(11/04/98)
Sneaks Reviewed by Steve Kandell
"Shooting to Kill" by Christine Vachon: A peek inside the rough-and-tumble indie film world, from the producer of "Happiness," "Kids" and "Velvet Goldmine"
(11/04/98) Today in Entertainment:
Sharps and Flats
Reviews of new albums by R.E.M, Bruce Hornsby, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Silver Jews
(11/04/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
PBS documents the making of "Homicide: Life on the Street"
(11/04/98)
Today in Ivory Tower:
Camille On Campus Forget Foucault; remember the facts By Camille Paglia
Filling in the black holes of a liberal arts education means returning to the stacks with an open mind and open notebook
(11/04/98) Seven Deadly Sins Waiting to be unzipped By Mindy Hung
One grad student virgin exposes the secrets of her tribe
(11/04/98)
Election Coverage:
Newsreal GOP Newtered By Joan Walsh
Voters reject the Gingrich-Starr agenda
(11/04/98)
What it all means
Al Franken, Anne Lamott, Camille Paglia and other Salon pundits on the election results
(11/04/98)
Letters Anne Lamott's "Mother Rage" provokes some, inspires others; readers comment on abortion attacks, D'Amato and Spam (11/04/98)
The K Chronicles By Keith Knight
NBA basketball, where are you?
(11/04/98) |
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Nov. 3, 1998
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Television By Joyce Millman
Have you voted yet? Election night on the tube
(11/03/98)
21st Dr. Laura, how could you? By Patrizia DiLucchio
Copyright war rages over Schlessinger's nude photos (11/03/98)
Sneaks Reviewed by Chris Lehmann
"... And the Horse He Rode in On" by James Carville: From the Clinton defender and former Salon columnist, a hastily assembled compendium of Starr sins, Starr gaffes and Starr plots
(11/03/98)
Mr. Blue By Garrison Keillor
Have I become one of those people William Bennett scorns as having no moral compass?
(11/03/98) Letters Debunking the "Ookie Cookie" rumor; the distinct pleasures of noshing on dog flesh
(11/03/98) Media Circus Under the Covers By James Poniewozik
Freshen up your election, hon? Politicians and pollsters, run! It's the attack of -- 60-foot Waitress Mom!
(11/03/98)
Mothers Who Think Worse sex can be yours -- tonight! By Holly Smith
Watching cellulite-laden "real people" on better-sex videos is a sure ticket to getting the erotic heaves (11/03/98)
Newsreal:
Aristocracy of the dropouts By Todd Gitlin
How non-voters rule America
(11/03/98) Left HookHead of Newt By Joe Conason
Will Gingrich pay if Republicans blow the election?
(11/03/98)
Story Minute By Carol Lay
Mr.
Predictable
(11/03/98) Wanderlust
The Hollywood tourists never see By Jeff Greenwald
A travel writer finds life-changing adventure on the sound stage of an NBC sitcom
(11/03/98) |
MONDAY
Nov. 2, 1998
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21st A new mecca for Silicon Valley By Simon Firth
The Tech Museum is full of innovative wonders -- just don't expect to see the Valley's darker side represented
(11/02/98)
Today in Entertainment:
Home Movies Camp classic By Charles
Taylor
"To Be or Not to Be": Vain Polish actors vs. buffoonish Nazi
killers in a classic, controversial comedy
(11/02/98) Television By Joyce Millman
Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Cats" on PBS: Beats going to the theater with a bag over your head (11/02/98)
Ivory Tower Idiot Savants? By Kristina Zarlengo
Science War II: A new battle cry from intellectual pranksters Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont (11/02/98) Mothers Who Think Foreign films for kids? By Charles Taylor
Dispelling the notion that they are strange, arty and incomprehensible is the best reason to introduce them to your children (11/02/98) Today in Newsreal:
Strange bedfellows
By Christopher Ott
Anti-gay voters in Madison, Wis., could help elect the nation's first open lesbian to Congress (11/02/98) Starr springs a leak
By Joe Conason
Federal judge appoints special master to investigate illegal disclosures to media (10/30/98)
Sneaks Reviewed by Charles Taylor
"The Extra Man" by Jonathan Ames: If charm were snowflakes, this novel -- about a refined transvestite teacher living on the cheap in Manhattan -- would be a
blizzard
(11/02/98) Letters Anti-circumcision rhetoric similar to Operation Rescue's; readers accuse Paglia of spouting "homophobic bile"
(11/02/98) This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
Study confirms -- U.S. poor are all millionaires! (11/02/98) Wanderlust Death on Ios By Jeffrey Tayler
Could he recapture his youth with a passionate encounter on
Greece's most hedonistic island?
(11/02/98)
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