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Weekend, May 29-31, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
$20 million tears By Joyce Millman
Forget about the doe eyes and the megawatt smile -- Julia Roberts' real knack is for suffering. And that, in Hollywood, is priceless. (05/29/99)
Health & Body:
Buddha with a whip By Virginia Vitzthum
He heals his lovers by subjecting them to rituals of ancient torture, but how can sado-masochism offer a path to sexual health? (05/29/99)
News:
As the world yawns By Jake Tapper
The Clinton spin machine kicks into overdrive to protect the president against the damaging allegations in the Cox Report. (05/28/99)
People:
Rewind The face that launched a thousand trips By Amy Reiter
Long ago and far away, Keir Dullea commanded the spaceship in Kubrick's mind-bending movie that rocketed the sci-fi genre into blockbuster orbit.. (05/29/99)
Technology:
Silicon Follies Chapter 22 By Thomas Scoville
Bigger is better: Barry announces the death of the Nerd Maverick. (05/29/99)
Travel:
Crosses in the field By Diane R. Molberg
A bus tour of Normandy leads to an unforgettable encounter at the American cemetery. (05/29/99)
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Friday, May 28, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
"Notting Hill" By Stephanie Zacharek
Julia Roberts plays a superstar; Hugh Grant plays a kicked puppy. Our critic plays dead. (05/28/99)
"The Loss of Sexual Innocence" By Charles Taylor
Mike Figgis' stylistically extreme sexual autobiography may be a failure, but at least it fails shamelessly.(05/28/99)
"The Thirteenth Floor" By Andrew O'Hehir
Between the 12th floor and the 14th floor, boredom waits! (05/28/99)
Sharps & flats By Ezra Gale
There's no way you're going to pay $400 for a Duke Ellington box set. Here are five reissues that get to the center of the legend's vast genius.(05/28/99)
Television By Joyce Millman
How randy was Ayn Rand?; "Behind the Music" goes nightly (05/28/99)
Books:
A baffling man By Vince Passaro
Although David Foster Wallace doesn't act the way an author should, his brilliant new book is filled with desperation, loneliness and addiction. (05/28/99)
Ivory Tower Hard to stomach By Chris Colin
At Berkeley and Pitt, student activists stopped eating. But were they hungry for change or drama? (05/28/99)
Reviews "Sugar and Rum" By Barry Unsworth
Reviewed by Marion Lignana Rosenberg: Barry Unsworth guides the reader through the dark places of depression -- hilariously. (05/28/99)
Reviews "The Calling" By Catherine Whitney
Reviewed by Mary Elizabeth Williams: A lapsed Catholic goes back to her roots and explores our fascination with nuns. (05/28/99)
Log Presidential beach books By Laura Miller
The first reader lightens up. (05/28/99)
Health & Body:
Night of the Living Foghorn By Arthur Allen
Snoring can be funny, but it can also cause serious sleep deprivation. (05/28/99)
Letters:
Letters We face street harassment every day; should the dean have been busted for computer porn? (05/28/99)
Media:
The ad from hell By Ruth Shalit
Can a company successfully sue an agency for making a commercial that really, really sucks? Stay tuned for a word from our courthouse. (05/28/99)
Mothers Who Think:
A mother defends Marilyn Manson By Nani Power
Despite his Antichrist antics, the shock-rocker is really a pussycat who creates artful music with a message. (05/28/99)
News:
Traitor in chief By David Horowitz
Clinton has not only dismantled our national defense, he has given away our military advantages to enemies all too willing to destroy us. (05/28/99)
Let the litigation begin By Dave Cullen
Kevorkian's lawyer's suit against the Columbine killers' parents is just the beginning. (05/28/99)
People:
Alt Birds do it. Bees do it. Even teens on the WB do it ... By Jenn Shreve
Sex ed takes a beating in Minneapolis; Slovenia hires a PR firm; black Sam Spades take the whodunit stage. (05/28/99)
My Lunch With Joseph Kramer By Jenn Shreve
A sacred prostitute and teacher of "ritual masturbation" explains the mysterious links between spirituality and doing the wild thing. (05/28/99)
Nothing Personal By Amy Reiter
Is Hillary ready to say "My turn"? Is Jar Jar an extraterrestrial Stepin Fetchit? Is Reagan soon to be a major license plate? (05/28/99)
Technology:
Fear of links By Scott Rosenberg
While professional journalists turn up their noses, weblog pioneers invent a new, personal way to organize the Web's chaos. (05/28/99)
Log "Star Wars" lovers call for Jar Jar's head By David Cassel
Get that Gungan out of the galaxy, cry fans annoyed by the character's cloying subservience and pidgin English. (05/28/99)
Log "Buffy" fans distribute postponed finale online By Howard Wen
Network's decision irks the faithful, who take to their Web sites and "tape trees" to get their "Vampire Slayer" fix. (05/28/99)
Travel:
Wanderlust Tales of a Tokyo stripper By Bob Blanchard
Tired of teaching English? Try taking your clothes off instead. (05/28/99)
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Thursday, May 27, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
Joan Chen: Guerrilla director By Michael Sragow
"Xiu Xiu" director Joan Chen talks about the making of a subversive love story. (05/27/99)
Sharps & flats By Alex Pappademas
Can made world music for some other world.(05/27/99)
Log The WB's Big Daddy condescension By Charles Taylor
Another "Buffy" episode postponed. Are the paranoia demons running loose? (05/27/99)
Television By Joyce Millman
"Fox Files" gets nostalgic over Ted Bundy. (05/27/99)
Books:
Wall Street lynching By David Bowman
Falsely accused of bilking millions, a black bond trader talks about the frat-boy culture of high finance. (05/27/99)
Log The naughty truth about Britain's aristocracy By Craig Offman
Hallowed book unveils the naughty truth about Britain's aristocracy. (05/27/99)
Reviews "Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life" By Howard Sounes
Reviewed by Jonathan Miles: A biography of the lowlife nihilist forgoes the fig leaves. (05/27/99)
Comics:
Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling
To China with love (05/27/99)
Health & Body:
Cinema therapy By Daniel Mangin
How some shrinks are using movies to help their clients cope with life and just feel better. (05/27/99)
Letters:
Letters Waldron's baby wasn't "nursed to death"; readers clash on condom ban. (05/27/99)
Media:
TV to over-49s: You haven't dropped dead yet? By James Poniewozik
Hey, Gramps! Want more TV shows aimed at you? Then stop watching them (05/27/99)
Mothers Who Think:
Sincere meditations By Anne Lamott
Slick packaging can't hide a disfigured soul or fearful spirit. Just ask the pastor of the Church of 80 Percent Sincerity. (05/27/99)
News:
NATO in denial By Tom Hayden
The conflict in Yugoslavia is a war that NATO cannot win, and should not be fighting. (05/27/99)
You can't negotiate with a war criminal By Ian Williams
But a circus tent of NATO opponents, from Tom Hayden to Arianna Huffington, won't face reality. (05/27/99)
Spies and lies By Jeff Stein
Scientist Wen Ho Lee passed a polygraph test, but the feds want to depend more on them to detect espionage. (05/27/99)
Shays calls the GOP's bluff By Jake Tapper
By trying to force a floor vote on campaign finance reform, Rep. Chris Shays puts his money where his mouth is -- and his career in jeopardy. (05/27/99)
Will Milosevic's indictment matter? By Laura Rozen
They're not dancing in the streets of Sarajevo yet, because the indicted Serbian war criminal may never be brought to justice.(05/27/99)
People:
Rogues' Gallery The teachings of Bill Bonanno: A wise-guy way of knowledge By Douglas Cruickshank
What is the sound of one hit man pontificating? Ex-mafiosi Bill Bonanno offers up New Age wisdom, made man-style. (05/27/99)
Nothing Personal True tales of topless Sophie and the bird nest breasts By Amy Reiter
The Sun newspaper catches Rhys-Jones with her shirt off; his Nastiness goes after her Rodhamness. (05/27/99)
A boy named Shel By Rik Elswit
A member of Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show recalls Shel Silverstein's wicked ways with songs and women. (05/27/99)
Technology:
Dr Laura: Dressed to shrill By Patricia DiLucchio
Moralizing radio know-it-all goes after sex educators, librarians and porn, in her crusade for filtered Net access. (05/27/99)
Log By Andrew Leonard
Can a "Star Wars" personality test help you choose a new career? Well, it's sure fun trying. (05/28/99)
Travel:
Travel Advisor New York's best cheap hotels By Donald D. Groff
Our expert gives advice on saving money in Manhattan, plus panda-watching in China, arranging a private island stay in the Bahamas and wheelchair travel tips (05/27/99)
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Wednesday, May 26, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
The politics of plagiarism By Jeff Stark
Why Beck, Stereolab, Tortoise, the High Llamas and Sean Lennon are all fascinated by Tom Zé. (05/26/99)
Sharps & flats By John Milward
Singer-songwriter Ron Sexsmith whispers sweetly. (05/26/99)
Television By Joyce Millman
Season finales of "Dawson," "Drew Carey," "Norm"; Benjamin Bratt's last "Law & Order" (05/26/99)
Books:
It takes a worried man By Roger Gathman
Stephen Dixon's brilliant new novel takes the American male beyond adolescence. (05/26/99)
Ivory Tower The pope who gave birth By Katharine Whittemore
Peter Sanford's engaging first-person history tracks down the medieval legend of Pope Joan and finds there's more to her tale than the Vatican admits. (05/26/99)
Log Ersatz Nabokov fools the big boys By Craig Offman
PeAn amateur prankster pulls off a literary hoax. (05/26/99)
Reviews "The Migration of Ghosts" By Pauline Melville
Reviewed by Stephanie Zacharek:In a dozen stories, Pauline Melville uses symbols to beat the reader senseless. (05/26/99)
Comics:
The K Chronicles By Keith Knight
In praise of milk crates. (05/26/99)
Health & Body:
Raped on an autumn day By Nancy Venable Raine
There's nothing more reassuring than a locked door -- unless you've locked the devil inside with you. (05/26/99)
Letters:
Letters "Star Wars" wives strike back; don't say we call Kosovo a "good war." (05/26/99)
Mothers Who Think:
Crime school By Fiona Morgan
Does prosecuting teenagers as adults make society safer? (05/26/99)
News:
A visit to 'no-man's land' By Rob Mank
An endless stream of refugees waits in desperate limbo betweenm Kosovo terror and crowded camps. (05/26/99)
Friend or Foe? By Joshua Micah Marshall
The appropriate US reaction to new allegations of Chinese espionage depends on whether China is an adversary or an ally. (05/26/99)
Is sodomy with a stick worse than death? By Jill Nelson
The approprThe outcry over Justin Volpe's abuse of Abner Louima -- compared with comparative silence about decades of police killings -- suggests assaulting someone's manhood is worse than killing him. (05/26/99)
People:
Nothing Personal The GOP's phantom menace By Amy Reiter
Sen. Bob Smith: The man makes who Jesse Helms look granola; "Star Wars" deprivation in Menomonie, Wis.; for the record: George W. Bush may have done drugs. (05/26/99)
Ricky Martin -- superstud or closet case? By Camille Paglia
The Rock Hudson PR Peter Meter is going off over Latin heartthrob Ricky Martin. (05/26/99)
Technology:
Silicon Follies By Thomas Scoville
Chapter 21: Stalking the wild Fry's salesperson. (05/26/99)
The Web's new tribal warfare By Andrew Leonard
Machine gun lovers and vegetarians clash online -- and at the end of the rumble, a site lies in ruins. (05/26/99)
Log Open legal season on Microsoft By Kaitlin Quistgaard
Redmond's lawyers face four separate suits simultaneously, including the resumption of the federal antitrust trial. (05/26/99)
Travel:
Book Bag The top travel books By Don George
What are the best travel books of the century? The readers respond. (05/26/99)
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Tuesday, May 25, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
We love you Ricky, oh yes we do By Cintra Wilson
Move over, Mick: Ricky Martin is a modern Prometheus for the collective penis of pop. (05/25/99)
The finest children's album ever made By Douglas Wolk
Of three new Carole King reissues, it's "Really Rosie" -- a "Tapestry" for the under-10 set -- that stands out. (05/25/99)
Sharps & flats By Philip Booth
Jazz pianist Monty Alexander's gutsy vision stirs up Bob Marley's greatest hits. (05/25/99)
Television By Joyce Millman
Season wraps for "Buffy," "Felicity"; Shatner IS The Big Giant Head (05/25/99)
Books:
Mr. Blue Hot sex with the ex By Garrison Keillor
My boyfriend's tortured by something I wrote about a long-ago, meaningless affair. How can I reassure him? (05/25/99)
In defense of science fiction By John Clute
Readers looking for inventive literary fiction need to look beyond the lurid book covers. (05/25/99)
Log Japanese denial and "The Rape of Nanking" By Laura Miller
Author Iris Chang reacts to Kashiwashobo's decision to halt publication of her book.(05/25/99)
Reviews "Merde" By Ralph A. Lewin
Reviewed by Peter Kurth: n investigation of shit yields gold. (05/25/99)
Comics:
Story Minute By Carol Lay
The disaster vulture (05/25/99)
Health & Body:
Urge Sexy violence or violent sex? By Carol Lloyd
She avoided sex work, but violence work? That was another matter. (05/25/99)
Log No sweat By Dawn MacKeen
A recent e-mail is scaring women away from anti-perspirants. (05/25/99)
Letters:
Letters "Hardball" goof is truly scary; don't call stay-at-home dads incompetent! (05/25/99)
Mothers Who Think:
The invisible parent By Lu Vickers
While many courts won't recognize the rights of non-biological gay parents, one woman refused to let go of her child. (05/25/99)
News:
Traumatized refugees build a camp metropolis By Mark Schapiro
As NATO troops go back to war, residents develop their own civilization. (05/25/99)
People:
Brilliant Careers The dazzling versatility of Michelle Pfeiffer By Charles Taylor
With roles as diverse as Catwoman and Madame de Tourvel, she has racked up one critically acclaimed performance after another.(05/25/99)
Nothing Personal James policy wonka and the insensitive chocolate factory By Amy Reiter
Carville gaga over Barak; Rosalynn C. nuts over Nestles; Couric over the top in trench coat. (05/25/99)
Technology:
Essay questions By Christopher Ott
How well can computers judge prose -- and would you want one
grading your exam? (05/25/99)
Log Family-tree sleuths throng new Mormon site By Kaitlin Quistgaard
Long-awaited database goes online -- and has trouble staying up, thanks to an overload of traffic. (05/25/99)
Travel:
Travel Diary Fool for lust By Elliott Neal Hester
A woman named Rita inspires a flight attendant to woo her halfway around the world -- on standby. (05/25/99)
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Monday, May 24, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
La vie en "Melrose" By Sarah Vowell
Amanda/ You came and you gave without taking/ And I need you Mondays/ Amanda. (05/24/99)
Home Movies "The Late Show" By Charles Taylor
City of angles: Art Carney and Lily Tomlin sleuth among the low-lifes in a scuffed-up L.A. noir. (05/24/99)
Sharps & flats By Seth Mnookin
Homespun avant-gardist Bill Frisell explores the unfolding saga of the American West. (05/24/99)
Log Are you willing to spend $500 for a CD that the record companies give away for free? By Stephanie Zacharek
Nirvana's "Pennyroyal Tea" commands $1,000 on eBay, but poor David Byrne can't buy a date for $1.99. (05/24/99)
Television By Joyce Millman
"Melrose Place," "Mad About You" pack it in; season finales of "Raymond," "Ally" (05/24/99)
Books:
Ivory Tower The long Rhodes home By Carrie La Seur
Hiding from the Oxford mafia and everyone's stratospheric expectations, a young Rhodes scholar takes the hardest class of all: life. (05/24/99)
Book Bag By John Updike
The author of "Rabbit, Run" picks the five greatest novels about romance. (05/24/99)
Log By Stephanie Zacharek
Does the philosopher understand the difference between commentary and libel? (05/24/99)
Reviews"By the Shore" By Galaxy Craze
Reviewed by Charles Taylor: Galaxy Craze's debut novel is a hushed and tentative affair. (05/24/99)
Comics:
This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
Bomb, bomb, bomb! Otherwise we'll lose face! (05/24/99)
Health & Body:
Asleep at the wheel By Chris Colin
My father's narcolepsy was humorous, frightening and intriguing. (05/24/99)
Letters:
Letters Camryn Manheim's flawed world; I'm afraid of my anthrax shots. (05/24/99)
Media:
Will RealAudio kill the radio star? By James Poniwozik
Commercial radio will have only itself to blame if the Internet ends up eating its pablum lunch. (05/24/99)
Mothers Who Think:
Out of the darkness By Patricia Weaver Francisco
In "Working with Available Light," a husband explores the bond men and women share in the aftermath of rape. (05/24/99)
News:
Dialogue of the deaf By David Horowitz
The Los Angeles Times Book Review is controlled by a leftist editor who relentlessly censors other voices. (05/24/99)
Who will save Albania? By David Rieff
The poorest country in Europe may be hardest hit by the Balkans war. (05/24/99)
New Kosovar exodus alarms aid groups By Laura Rozen
More than 13,000 refugees pour into Macedonia, telling of massacre at Grastica. (05/24/99)
Whole Lott o' blamin' goin' on By Jake Tapper
Senate Republicans are angry that their leadership let Al Gore be a hero on guns. (05/24/99)
How close can NATO get to the KLA? By Laura Rozen
The accidental bombing of a rebel compound reveals the West's uneasy relationship with indigenous anti-Serb forces. (05/24/99)
People:
Nothing Personal Herr hubby: shun housework, go to jail. By Amy Reiter
The free ride on the autobahn of marriage may soon come to a screeching halt for German men. (05/24/99)
What's Your Story? Fingers will twitch . . . By Jenn Shreve
In 44 years of training morticians, Hugh McMonigle has seen fingers twitch, heads rebuilt and been properly freaked-out at least once. (05/24/99)
Technology:
What does it take to make a buck off of Usenet? By Janelle Brown
Unable to turn a profit as a geek hangout, Deja.com has recast itself as a consumer-oriented community. (05/24/99)
Log Raytheon triumphs over Yahoo posters' anonymity By Kaitlin Quistgaard
Company drops its lawsuit -- once it gets the names it seeks. (05/24/99)
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Weekend, May 22-23, 1999
Health & Body:
Urge A giant fetish By Jon Bowen
For the macrophile, the bigger the woman, the bigger the love. (05/22/99)
People:
Rewind Love's labors lost By Sean Elder
That Arthur Lee's Love shattered like a bottle only heightens the group's claim to the title of California's greatest psychedelic band. (05/22/99)
The Raw and the Cooked The yuck of the Irish By Douglas Cruickshank
Parents of a girl killed in car crash sue a rent-a-car company, claiming Irishmen are "bound to get drunk." (05/22/99)
Technology:
Silicon Follies By Thomas Scoville
Chapter 20: Liz regroups at the chateau. (05/22/99)
21st Challenge No. 22 By Charlie Varon and Jim Rosenau
Draft a memo from the Gates home planet. (05/22/99)
Travel:
The Boss in Barcelona By Michael Yessis
Bruce Springsteen rehearses -- and a global group of lucky fans gets a free concert. (05/22/99)
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Friday, May 21, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
"Besieged" Interpretation of scenes By Daniel Mangin
"Besieged" unfolds on the surface as a duet between two dislocated souls, but director Bernardo Bertolucci can't resist repeating his Freudian refrain. (05/21/99)
"The Love Letter" Unsigned, sealed and delivered By Andrew O'Hehir
The WASPy lovestruck prose of "The Love Letter" maddens the citizens of Loblolly-by-the-Sea. (05/21/99)
Sharps & flats By Amanda Nowinski
Ubiquity's "The New Latinaires" fuses Latin jazz with electronic ingenuity.(05/21/99)
Television By Joyce Millman
The last "Homicide"; Jesse Ventura and Michael Landon biopics (05/21/99)
Books:
Ivory Tower Must dog eat dog? By Susan McCarthy
After preaching that humans live by animal laws of aggression and selfishness, evolutionary psychologists are finding the animal kingdom is not as brutal as they imagined. (05/21/99)
Log By Craig Offman
Joe McGinniss tackles an Italian soccer club president (05/21/99)
Reviews"Why We Buy" By Paco Underhill
Reviewed by Todd Pruzan: Paco Underhill examines the sociology and psychology of the consumerist impulse -- and comes up with a few surprises. (05/21/99)
Health & Body:
Bashful bladders By Mary Roach
Some people, mostly men, can't pee in public -- or even in their own homes. (05/21/99)
Letters:
Letters Kosovo refugees need food, not celebrity visits; don't trust Microsoft with your TV (05/21/99)
Media:
Alt By Jenn Shreve
The Dallas Observer exposes telecommunications madness; rumors of carcinogenic tampons may be greatly exaggerated. (05/21/99)
Mothers Who Think:
Nursed to death By Karen Houppert
Tabitha Walrond tried to breast-feed her baby. Now she could go to jail for malnourishing her child. (05/21/99)
News:
Too sexy for my shirt By Debra Dickerson
It's spring, a time for many men to sexually harass women on the streets in the crudest of terms. Should there be a law against it? (05/21/99)
Shays' rebellion By Jake Tapper
The maverick congressman may buck GOP leadership and push for a vote on campaign finance reform (05/21/99)
Impeachment's legacy By Anthony York
Susan Carpenter McMillan, the former spokeswoman for Paula Jones, is being wooed by California Republicans hungry for candidates. (05/21/99)
Bottles fly at Jerusalem's Wailing Wall By Samuel G. Freedman
Ultra-Orthodox men harass praying women as Barak tries to assemble a government. (05/21/99)
People:
Nothing Personal Son of gnome manufacturer chuffed to bits By Amy Reiter
Former prime minister finds long-lost brother; ex-Doobie
Brother (no relation to the PM) now inhaling Republican politics. (05/20/99)
Technology:
Porn, the Harvard dean and tech support By "Richard Hemingway"
What should the support staff do when it finds 'suspicious' material on your computer? (05/21/99)
Log Some Web with your Whopper? By Janelle Brown
Burger King's latest combo meal includes Net access -- but the Web will be sliced and diced through filtering software. (05/21/99)
Log Publisher O'Reilly admits open source goof By Andrew Leonard
But there's still a dispute over who who holds the copyright to the phrase "open source." (05/21/99)
Travel:
Wanderlust Passport and prophylactics By David Fox
A customs agent probes the intimate details of a traveler's love life. (05/21/99)
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Thursday, May 20, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
The biggest indie film ever made By Michael Sragow
Producer Rick McCallum reveals the filmmaking formula for "The Phantom Menace" -- and hopes Hollywood will follow suit. (05/20/99)
"Black Mask" That thing you fu By Mary Elizabeth Williams
Jet Li has all the right moves in the action-packed "Black Mask." (05/20/99)
Sharps & flats By Alex Pappademas
"Felicity" totally kicks "Dawson's" ass.(05/20/99)
Log Yoda baby, meet Austin Powers By R. Lee Sullivan
Live, from the Shagadelic Séance! It's the jamming Jedi master with the mystic mod mojo!(05/20/99)
Television By Joyce Millman
Vegas wedding(s) on "Friends"?; "ER," "Frasier" season finales (05/20/99)
Books:
Not talented enough By Ellie Forgotson
A "promising" writer finishes her first novel and faces her worst fear. (05/20/99)
The phantom manuscript By Wes Tooke
"Ulysses 1" fever is blooming all over as stores prepare for onslaught of Joyce fans. (05/20/99)
Reviews "Love Trouble" By Veronica Geng
Reviewed by Darcy Lockman: The late New Yorker writer wickedly satirized singles groups, stylish Manhattanites and Raymond Chandler. (05/20/99)
Reviews "The Way People Run" By Christopher Tilghman
Reviewed by Gary Krist: Earnest and unhurried, Christopher Tilghman's short stories are wonderfully out of step with the times. (05/20/99)
Comics:
Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling
Keep America strong -- with Your-Ad-Here High School!! (05/20/99)
Health & Body:
Death sentence? By Dawn MacKeen
By making condoms contraband, prisons may be exacerbating the AIDS health crisis. (05/20/99)
Letters:
Letters Star what?" lacked force and reason; readers loathe (and love) Lucas. (05/20/99)
Media:
Where's a crazy billionaire when you need one? By James Poniewozik
Daddy Warbucks! The American media wants you ... to run for president. (05/20/99)
Log Children should be interpreted and not heard By James Poniewozik
The Georgia shooting is sure to inspire another torrent of clueless media tea-leaf reading. (05/20/99)
Mothers Who Think:
The rules of the game By Sallie Tisdale
A dutiful soccer mom secretly obsesses over softball. (05/20/99)
News:
Buchanan's brother threatens Clinton associate By Jake Tapper
"Hardball" host Chris Matthews reportedly triggered assault by wrongly accusing Cody Shearer of being the "jogger" who harassed Kathleen Willey. (05/20/99)
Rumors of peace By Laura Rozen
Milosevic may soon declare victory -- and make the West pay billions to rebuild Serbia. (05/20/99)
Image wars By Jim Edwards
In the wake of Amadou Diallo's killing and Abner Louima's abuse, the New York Police Department is looking for a few good recruits. (05/20/99)
People:
Nothing Personal Shagadelic, baby? Oh behave! By Amy Reiter
Austin Powers evades Singaporean censors; Jesse "the vice president" Ventura? Clinton's Pinocchio complex." (05/20/99)
Rogues' Gallery Naked came the burglar; or, the cruel winds of fate By Douglas Cruickshank
There are a thousand stories in the Naked City -- but almost none of them involve the Lord of Flatulence. (05/20/99)
Technology:
Tracks of freedom By Jimmy Guterman
Why should open source be limited to computer programs? The same logic could unleash a world of creative, personalized music. (05/20/99)
Log Co-opting open source's good name By Andrew Leonard
Is O'Reilly & Associates bending the definition of open source as it promotes a book on the subject? (05/20/99)
Travel:
Travel Advisor Nude beaches around the world By Donald D. Groff
Our expert offers tips on where to bare it all, plus cell phones in Spain and honeymooning in Oaxaca. (05/20/99)
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Wednesday, May 19, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
The spirit is willing, but the Force is weak By Charles Taylor
Finally, "The Phantom Menace." "Star Wars" fans deserve better. (05/19/99)
Sharps & flats By Philip Booth
Jazz pianist Jacky Terrasson takes on Pink Floyd, Ravel. (05/19/99)
Television By Joyce Millman
"90210," "Party of Five" finales; David Kelley cleans house on "Chicago Hope" (05/19/99)
Books:
Deep code By Andrew Leonard
Neal Stephenson talks about the history of secrecy, the role of equations in art and the glory of open-source software. (05/19/99)
Ivory Tower I think therefore I tickle By Jose Klein
In his new book, "The Ticklish Subject," renegade philosopher Slavoj Zizek offers a mind-searing, polyvalent glimpse into the heart of modern freedom. (05/19/99)
Log Byatt skips Modern Library meetings By Craig Offman
The novelist casts an absentee ballot for the 100 best nonfiction books. (05/19/99)
Reviews "I'm a Stranger Here Myself" By Bill Bryson
Reviewed by Jeff Stark: A collection of columns by a lazy writer makes for lazy readers, too. (05/19/99)
Comics:
The K Chronicles By Keith Knight
My zebra is gonna kick your arse! (05/19/99)
Health & Body:
Gaining face By Jon Bowen
We've long had the technology to do face transplants; now we have the drugs (05/19/99)
Letters:
Letters Re-waging the battle of the sexes; vouchers won't fix our schools. (05/19/99)
Media:
When Moguls Attack! By Nikki Finke
Don't mess with The Big Mouse: Disney's Eisner pays back archnemesis Katzenberg by whacking Dreamworks pilot. (05/19/99)
Mothers Who Think:
"Star Wars" widows By Cynthia Durcanin
As their mates obsess over "Star Wars," these women find their relationships crushed under the weight of the Force. (05/19/99)
News:
A good war? By Tamara Straus
Human rights groups battle over whether NATO's Kosovo mission can be defended on humanitarian grounds. (05/19/99)
Israel's political make-over By Daryl Lindsey
Experts discuss Ehud Barak's sweeping victory.(05/19/99)
People:
Obit: Tibor Kalman By Matthew Haber
A highly innovative and influential designer, the onetime editor of Colors magazine died March 2. (05/19/99)
Sex! How to write a magazine article about a magazine party By Cintra Wilson
The only revelation at the POV soiree was the libido-engulfing Joan Jett. (05/19/99)
Nothing Personal Burly bikers bellow "boo-hoo!" By Amy Reiter
Martian case tossed out of court; the Clintons clean up; and motor-boys dig "Shakespeare in Love." (05/19/99)
Technology:
Silicon Follies By Thomas Scoville
Chapter 19: "No boundaries" for Barry's libido. (05/19/99)
Screen decor By Patrizia DiLucchio
Users are rebelling against utilitarian gray and personalizing their desktops with everything from gamelan to William Morris motifs. (05/19/99)
Log Mock court rules COPA unconstitutional By Janelle Brown
Student jurists turn thumbs down on Net censorship law. (05/19/99)
Travel:
Book Bag The top 10 travel books of the century By Don George
The Modern Library's nonfiction list egregiously ignores travel literature. We redress the oversight. (05/19/99)
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Tuesday, May 18, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
Mocking the Mayflower By Charles Taylor
There was plenty of antagonism in the air at the start of Hole's Boston show Sunday night. But Courtney Love wouldn't have it any other way. (05/18/99)
Unbroken By Brett Anderson
June Carter and Johnny Cash celebrate her new album with soulful spirituals and fried green tomatoes. (05/18/99)
What's Old is new By Jeff Stark
Rhett Miller and Murry Hammond of the Old 97s talk about self-hatred, the y'alternative scene and the cynical world of Eve 6. (05/18/99)
Sharps & flats By Tony Scherman
Radney Foster's neo-traditionalist country faces the harrowing future of not mattering. (05/18/99)
Television By Joyce Millman
"NYPD Blue," "Futurama," "PJs" finales; all-thumb spoof of "Star Wars" (05/18/99)
Books:
Barefoot on the shag By Pamela Grossman
Cartoonist Lynda Barry talks about Dennis Rodman, Matt Groening and her own darkly funny "Ernie Pook's Comeek." (05/18/99)
Log David Hare play echoes Julian Barnes article By Craig Offman
Bilked widow in David Hare play echoes woman in Julian Barnes article. (05/18/99)
Reviews "Human Voices" By Penelope Fitzgerald
Reviewed by Sylvia Brownrigg: A superb English novelist re-creates life during wartime at the BBC. (05/18/99)
Comics:
Story Minute By Carol Lay
Identity crisis (05/18/99)
Health & Body:
Urge Whirling dervish By Virginia Vitzthum
Sex freak Lisa Carver reaches for respectability. (05/18/99)
Log The Great American Cross-Out By Dawn MacKeen
The maker of a circulation supplement says we should all uncross our legs (05/18/99)
Letters:
Letters The finer points of erotic dance class; did Nixon policies help drug addicts? (05/18/99)
Media:
Michael and you By James Poniewozik
PR pros offer tips on what to do when Michael Moore suddenly drops by the office. (05/18/99)
Mothers Who Think:
Wild Thing Juvenilia By Polly Shulman
Hilarity and insight -- sometimes unintended -- show up in the early writings of great authors. (05/18/99)
News:
Fireworks over Rabin Square By Flore de Preneuf
At the site of a tragic assassination, Barak supporters celebrate a return to the peace process.(05/18/99)
From Bibi to Barak By Flore de Preneuf
One town's shift shows why Israelis voted for change. (05/18/99)
"Hardball" strikes out By Joe Conason
Chris Matthews mistakenly identifies a Clinton friend on the air as the "jogger" who frightened Kathleen Willey. (05/18/99)
People:
The medieval mind of George Lucas By Jim Paul
Though he draws on our century's pop culture for his raw material, his vision arises from the Middle Ages. (05/18/99)
Nothing Personal Doling out Viagra won't fix this pickle By Amy Reiter
Bob not aroused over Liddy's run; Moore vs. Goldberg: bloodsport we can support. (05/18/99)
Technology:
The real Y2K bug By Paul Saffo
Forget your computer -- worry about the wacko down the street.
(05/18/99)
Log Be the first on your block to detect alien life! By Janelle Brown
Forget imaginary aliens -- with the official debut of SETI@Home, you can sign your computer up to "listen" for the real thing. (05/18/99)
Travel:
Vagabonding Song of the broken road By Rolf Potts
For adventurers headed overland to Angkor Wat, Cambodia's Route 6 is Disneyland gone bad. (05/18/99)
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Monday, May 17, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
Size matters By Joyce Millman
In her engaging memoir "Wake Up, I'm Fat!" Camryn Manheim of "The Practice" reveals how she learned to throw her weight around. (05/17/99)
Sharps & flats By Brett Anderson
Piano man Ben Folds grows up on "The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner." (05/17/99)
"You are courageous" By Heather Havrilesky
A supposed former Alanis-hater confesses. (05/17/99)
Television By Joyce Millman
"Dilbert": Holiday for dogs; "King of Queens," "Cosby" finales (05/17/99)
Log Books unbound at Cannes By Marilyn August
Literary adaptations meet with varying success. (05/17/99)
Books:
Ivory TowerThe story of no By August Jacobs
He vowed never to mix pleasure with teaching but her indifference proved irresistable. (05/17/99)
Reviews "Another World" By Pat Barker
Reviewed by Nan Goldberg: Pat Barker's newest novel takes up a notion of Faulkner's -- that the past isn't over. It isn't even past. (05/17/99)
Book BagIn the shadow of the screen By Pauline Kael
Pauline Kael picks five favorite novels that have something to do with the movies. (05/17/99)
Log By Laura Miller
Internet debate generates hot air! (05/17/99)
Comics:
This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
If it's good for the Grief Industry, it's good for America! (05/17/99)
Health & Body:
As tears go by By Susan McCarthy
Researchers collect tears, asking Why do we cry? (05/17/99)
Letters:
Letters Horowitz gets it wrong (again); readers debate digital democracy. (05/17/99)
Media:
The Rall World By James Poniewozik
Ted Rall, the cartoonist-laureate of bitterness, talks about class, baby boomers, "soft liberals" and why editorial cartoons really, really suck. (05/17/99)
Mothers Who Think:
Name game By Susan McCarthy
My friend named her kid after a dog. At least it's a good solid
name. (05/17/99)
News:
Can we talk? By Joshua Marshall
Steve Forbes takes a sharp right turn just as the Republican Party is looking for a centrist path. (05/17/99)
People:
What's Your Story? Waiting (and waiting) for "The Phantom Menace" By Jenn Shreve
"Crazy K" is so crazy about "Star Wars" movies he's been in the ticket line for weeks. (05/17/99)
Nothing Personal Mega-oops! By Amy Reiter
The Gore campaign mailed an invitation to Chung last month, but Johnny sang, "Return to Sender." (05/17/99)
Technology:
Domain names from paradise By Mary Eisenhart
Can Tonga's crown prince turn the tiny island nation into the South Pacific's Net heaven? (05/17/99)
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Weekend, May 15-16, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
Death of a cop show By Joyce Millman
NBC takes struggling "Homicide" off life support. (05/14/99)
Health & Body:
Urge Fallen angels By Susie Bright
Anti-porn crusaders have given up trying to save women. Now it's just kids they want to protect. (05/15/99)
News:
"I smell the presense of Satan" By Dave Cullen
Is Littleton's evangelical subculture a solution to the youth alienation that played a role in the Columbine killings, or a reflection of it? (05/15/99)
People:
The Raw and the Cooked The literary world gets squirrelly By Douglas Cruickshank
Hefner's Viagra-enhanced salary; dirty secrets of Squirrel Nutkin (05/15/99)
Technology:
Silicon
Follies By Thomas Scoville
Chapter 18: The women's locker room game -- Decathlon of the flesh. (05/15/99)
Travel:
Letters from Everest By Carolyn Hahn
My brother found George Mallory, and I found my brother. (05/15/99)
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Friday, May 14, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
"Midsummer Night's Dream" Disenchanted forest By Stephanie Zacharek
Too many weak performances -- and no, not including Calista's -- prevent Michael Hoffman's opulent "Midsummer Night's Dream" from being more than a mildly pleasurable exercise in ornamentation. (05/14/99)
"Tea with Mussolini" Endless love By Andrew O'Hehir
Director Franco Zeffirelli never surrenders his sunny disposition in this semi-fictional adaptation of his memoirs as a youth in World War II-era Italy. (05/14/99)
"Edge of Seventeen" Boys to men By Daniel Mangin
"Edge of Seventeen," a film about coming out and of age in the early '80s, trumps the current crop of nice-guy gay films. (05/14/99)
Star What? By Toby Young
10 reasons not to see "The Phantom Menace." (05/14/99)
Log Bruno meets Benny and Joon By Jeff Stark
Internet cartoon character looks to the big screen. (05/14/99)
Log What if Joan was one of us? By Christopher Hawthorne
CBS's "Joan of Arc" miniseries is a history lesson in end-of-the-millennium American pop culture. (05/14/99)
Television By Joyce Millman
Season finales for "Simpsons," "X-Files," "SNL"; Diana Ross vs. Joan of Arc. (05/14/99)
Books:
Ivory Tower All God's children By Jon Bowen
Alabama's largest private university suspends its community preaching program after white churches turn away young black preachers. (05/14/99)
Reviews "The Distance to the Moon" By James Morgan
Reviewed by Brad Wieners: A writer offers his own take on the literature of the road: the cross-country trip as midlife crisis. (05/14/99)
Log Turkish delights By Craig Offman A book by an Istanbul accountant reveals the secrets of an orgiastic Jewish sect. (05/14/99)
Health & Body:
Healing heat By Debra Ollivier
Steam and massage are part of an ancient purifying ritual. (05/14/99)
Letters:
Letters Ventura says what's on his mind; should you blame the Net? (05/14/99)
Media:
Alt By Jenn Shreve
Political consultants make for better copy than the candidates; one writer's Brontë-inspired hell; enough with the "enough with the Star Wars stories"! (05/14/99)
Mothers Who Think:
Mr. Mom's world By David Case
Stay-at-home dads face down stereotypes and learn how undervalued the work of child care really is. (05/14/99)
Drama Queen Tell us about dad's worst domestic moment and you could win prizes. (05/14/99)
News:
How tough is John McCain? By Jake Tapper
The GOP contender stands up to Milosevic, but will he defy the NRA? (05/14/99)
Give war a chance By Ian Williams
American leftists could learn something from their European counterparts -- war is the only way to stop Milosevic. (05/14/99)
Hillary does Brazda By Rob Mank
Another day, another celebrity visit to Macedonian refugee camps (05/14/99)
People:
My Lunch With Alex Jones By James Poniewozik
The Pulitzer Prize-winning host of PBS' "Media Matters" eats lobster while explaining how newspapers today are like Wal-Mart. (05/14/99)
Nothing Personal Gingrich scornful of toothpick brandishing By Amy Reiter
The Newtmeister derides oral hygeine while Clinton practices safe sax. (05/14/99)
Technology:
How much do I hear for this perl script? By Andrew Leonard
New O'Reilly venture creates an auction scheme for open-source software projects. (05/14/99)
Bill Gates' set-top boxing By Scott Rosenberg
How much "convergence" does $5 billion in Microsoft dollars buy? We're about to find out. (05/14/99)
Log Game wars at E3 expo By Moira Muldoon
Underdog Sega takes on Nintendo, Sony in battle of the next-generation platforms. (05/14/99)
Log Permatemps prevail in bid for Microsoft stock options By Andrew Leonard
A court deems Redmond's long-term temp workers "common-law employees" and says the software giant owes some palimony. (05/14/99)
Travel:
Wanderlust Never unpacking my emotional baggage By Christopher Johnston
Some people travel but never really move; others stay put but never stop roaming. (05/14/99)
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Thursday, May 13, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
Father figure By Michael Sragow
Director Irvin Kershner, the unknown wizard behind "The Empire Strikes Back," talks about being Darth Vader, working with George Lucas and making the best "Star Wars" film. (05/13/99)
Television By Joyce Millman
Chandler and Joey on the road to Vegas; "Will & Grace" finale (05/13/99)
Books:
Bark, growl, snort By Susan McCarthy
These writers want to speak for the animals. Maybe that's because animals can't tell them to shut up. (05/13/99)
Reviews "An Equal Music" By Vikram Seth
Reviewed by Akash Kapur: A chameleonic author turns his thoughts to love. (05/13/99)
Log Selling Salinger's letters By Laura Miller
Is Joyce Maynard a celebrity bloodsucker or a victim getting hers back? (05/13/99)
Comics:
Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling
Extraterrestrial adventures of the George W. Bush presidential exploratory committee! (05/13/99)
Health & Body:
Guinea pigs? By Arthur Allen
Our troops are being vaccinated against anthrax, but are the shots a dangerous waste of money? (05/13/99)
Letters:
Letters Sounding off on shooters and shrinks; Linux fans shouldn't trust Mindcraft.(05/13/99)
Media:
The hooker with a heart of gold By James Poniewozik
USA Today has gotten flak for selling ads on its front page -- but at least its money-grubbing is right out there for all to see. (05/13/99)
Mothers Who Think:
Mala from heaven By Anne Lamott
As the world crumbles, I string together beads of faith. (05/13/99)
News:
Wall Street lovefest By Anthony York
Outgoing Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin is hailed as a friend of the rich and the poor, as the markets shrug off his departure. (05/13/99)
People:
Rogues' Gallery The man who mistook a breast for a $50 bill By Douglas Cruickshank
Vegas' mob past rises up and bites its neon butt; Marla's shoe-loving man convicted. (05/13/99)
Nothing Personal White House Web site hacked by spelling bee flunk-outs; Beverly Hills votes for "gaudiness and cruelty" and Al Gore said to be Russian spy. (05/13/99)
Technology:
Cool-hunters hit the Web jungle By Janelle Brown
When a marketing company builds a Web community to observe the elusive hipster teen, is it girl empowerment or exploitation? (05/13/99)
Log Pointcast for pennies By Scott Rosenberg
The once-proud king of the push market sells for a rock-bottom price. (05/13/99)
Log Gamers shun talk of Littleton violence By Moira Muldoon
The buzz at E3 is all about next-generation platforms, not the ethics of first-person shooters. (05/13/99)
Travel:
Travel Advisor Can I take my pooch to Paris? By Donald D. Groff
Our expert answers questions on the dog's life in France, frequent flyer miles as wedding gifts and Las Vegas hotel deals. (05/13/99)
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Wednesday, May 12, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
20th century boy By Stephanie Zacharek
It's Ewan McGregor's old-time Hollywood charm that's making him a big-time Hollywood star. (05/12/99)
Television By Joyce Millman
"The Nanny" packs it in; remember Joe Piscopo? (05/12/99)
Books:
Ivory Tower Gypsy Rose Coed By Sarah Gold
Mount Holyoke girls learn how to bump and grind from a tenured professor. (05/12/99)
Reviews "Nathaniel's Nutmeg" By Giles Milton
Reviewed by Steve McQuiddy: A new history of the early spice trade could clean up at the box office. (05/12/99)
Reviews "The Pathology of Lies" By Jonathon Keats
Reviewed by Ivan Nahem: A Tina Brown from hell hacks her way to the top -- literally. (05/12/99)
Comics:
The K Chronicles By Keith Knight
8 signs your day is going to suck. (05/12/99)
Health & Body:
Learning to play with others By Dawn MacKeen
Is a drug newly approved for social phobia a shyness cure or overkill? (05/12/99)
Letters:
Letters Horowitz threw Bush only softballs; firing back at gun ban proposal. (05/12/99)
Mothers Who Think:
In the land of lost children By Vivienne Walt
Jehona speaks in her sleep every night: "Where is mommy? Where is my daddy?" (05/12/99)
News:
Refugees protest treatment by Macedonians By Rob Mank
Kosovar Albanians are clashing with Macedonian police as refugee camps reach their saturation point. (05/12/99)
Why the Chinese embassy was bombed By Jeff Stein
A senior intelligence official says the CIA team in charge of choosing targets has no recent Belgrade experience. (05/12/99)
Giuliani flunks school-voucher test By Samuel G. Freedman
Instead of helping the poor, he aims to dynamite public education. (05/12/99)
People:
Guns and penises By Camille Paglia
American society's problem isn't guns -- it's the sexually dysfunctional men and women who abuse them. (05/12/99)
Nothing Personal Mike the Headless Chicken more popular than Clinton By Amy Reiter
Prez loses American popularity contest; Mike the Headless Chicken gets his own holiday; Nicole makes contact from the afterlife. (05/12/99)
Technology:
Silicon Follies By Thomas Scoville
Chapter 17: Wizards with Harvard degrees and $4,000 suits. (05/12/99)
Quake, Doom and blood lust By Wagner James Au
Violent games aren't a problem, says the computer gaming press -- while lovingly hawking the latest innovations in pixelated gore. (05/12/99)
Log Bianca shacks up with Nerve By Kaitlin Quistgaard
Smut meets erotica: Legendary Web hangout to be acquired by literary sex 'zine. (05/12/99)
Travel:
Santorini style By Abby Sinnott
Nothing seduces like seduction itself. (05/12/99)
Book bag Pushing the envelope By Don George
"In Search of Adventure," a new anthology, is like any trip: a mix of sleepless nights and epiphanies. (05/12/99)
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Tuesday, May 11, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
Sharps & flats Reviews of new releases from Nas, Matthew Shipp and a new Neil Young tribute. (05/11/99)
Log Art for money's sake By Mark Swartz
Chicago hosts the biggest fine art fair in America. (05/11/99)
Television By Joyce Millman
Prom night on "Buffy"; hawks and doves ponder Kosovo on "Frontline" (05/11/99)
Books:
"Turn of the Century" By James Poniewozik
Kurt Andersen's little big novel of the New York media world searches the noise for signal -- and finds it. (05/11/99)
Mr. Blue Out of the past By Garrison Keillor
My boyfriend is horrified that I was involved in threesomes before I met him, but I don't think I have anything to apologize for. What can I tell him? (05/11/99)
Log Orange Prize shortlist announced By Craig Offman
North American writers dominate a British literary award. (05/11/99)
Reviews "White Oleander" by Janet Fitch
Reviewed by Trish Deitch Rohrer: A first novelist sends her young heroine through the horror show of the Los Angeles foster-care system. (05/11/99)
Comics:
Story Minute By Carol Lay
Friends and enemies (05/11/99)
Health & Body:
Urge The humiliation of Bryan Winter By Gentry Lane
He wrote the archetypically arrogant male brushoff e-mail, setting off a firestorm of urban myth and electronic revenge. (05/11/99)
Letters:
Letters The race angle on Littleton massacre; Conason just doesn't get punk music. (05/11/99)
Media:
The woman in the gray flannel Mao jacket By Ruth Shalit
After two months as an ad woman, Ruth Shalit surveys the historic depiction of her profession and decides she'd rather be a late-capitalist soul-snatcher than a cringing drunk or a thieving ho'. (05/11/99)
Mothers Who Think:
Feline funeral By Kristina Robbins
Burying a beloved pet forced my mother to bury her past. (05/11/99)
News:
Cracked up By Maia Szalavitz
How did a drug whose addictive properties were once compared to potato chips become the scourge of America? (05/11/99)
Miami's vice By Art Levine
Crack cocaine is almost dead in many cities, but immigrants, suburbanites and teenagers have kept it alive in South Florida. (05/11/99)
Fixin' under Nixon By Lori Leibovich
A new book examines Richard Nixon's progressive drug policies and the deevolution of the war on drugs. (05/11/99)
People:
Brilliant Careers Northern exposure By Steve Burgess
Farley Mowat may be a Canadian national treasure, but that hasn't stopped his critics from savaging his credibility. (05/11/99)
Nothing Personal Look out Limbaugh! Get this woman a radio talk show By Amy Reiter
Arizona state Rep. Barbara Blewster spews racist remarks; another nutty theory on who shot J.F.K.; Congress takes on soda pop. (05/11/99)
Technology:
Reviews Linux for dummies? By Andrew Leonard
Caldera's new package is easy to install -- but it may point the way to an open-source Babel. (05/11/99)
Log MSN UK's "naked" experiment By Kaitlin Quistgaard
E-shop or die! (05/11/99)
Travel:
Out of the blue Out of the mouths of passengers By Elliott Neal Hester
Flight attendants hear the craziest things. (05/11/99)
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Monday, May 10, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
Home Movies "The Last of the Mohicans" By Charles Taylor
Daniel Day-Lewis and Madeleine Stowe turn "The Last of the Mohicans" into a deliciously roasted chestnut. (05/10/99)
Log How to save yourself from Y2K doom By Ron Feemster
It's as easy as resetting your VCR. (05/10/99)
Television By Joyce Millman
"Ally" and the male escort; ABC's teen jock rape case docudrama (05/10/99)
Books:
Ivory Tower Is the theory of everything a whole lotta hooey? By Ben P. Stein
The search for a theory of everything takes us to the edge of knowledge where pure aesthetic beauty may yield scientific truth. (05/10/99)
Book Bag True Gore By Gore Vidal
Gore Vidal picks five favorite postwar novels, including one by ...Gore Vidal. (05/10/99)
Log Terrorist tell-all By Craig Offman
A Black September leader recalls the Munich Olympics. (05/10/99)
Reviews By Andrew Burstein
"Sentimental Democracy" Reviewed by Kyle Copas: A historian examines the roots of American self-righteousness. (05/10/99)
Comics:
This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
Guns may kill lots of people, but they're great for scaring off aliens! (05/10/99)
Health & Body:
The pill from Hell By Stephen Fried
My wife took one innocuous antibiotic pill. Our lives haven't been the same since. (05/10/99)
Letters:
Letters If Lincoln was gay, prove it; Croatia and Serbia need democratic opposition. (05/10/99)
Media:
The Literature of Exhaustion By James Poniewozik
Fast Company isn't just a magazine -- it's the workaholic Bible for manic white-collar types too wired -- and scared -- to slow down. (05/10/99)
Mothers Who Think:
How the Alvarez girl found her magic By Julia Alvarez
A girl whose life dangled by a story showed me how to redeem my own. (05/10/99)
News:
Beijing journal By S.H.
An American student watches the not-so-spontaneous uprising against NATO and the U.S. (05/10/99)
Milosz: Peaceful coexistence is still possible in the Balkans By Tamara Straus
The Nobel Prize-winning poet, whose own country was devoured by its powerful neighbors, supports the NATO attacks -- and holds out hope for the future. (05/10/99)
Stop this war By David Horowitz
Clinton and his leftist buddies in NATO are squandering our money and our military credibility in the Balkans. (05/10/99)
People:
Nothing Personal It's a bird, it's a plane, it's Alan Greenspan By Amy Reiter
Jesse Jackson hits the bars; Jesse Ventura hits the Mall of America; Alan Greenspan hits the roof (05/10/99)
Technology:
Do e-mail petitions work? By Katherine Hobson
Chain letters and spam rarely impress politicians -- but they might listen to a more personal breed of Web activism. (05/10/99)
Send the House home By David Fine
These days lawmakers could live in their districts and convene online. Why won't they give up the Beltway? (05/10/99)
Log Write your name on Mars By Jamais Cascio
Space enthusiasts are signing their names to a CD bound for Mars -- where it will be radiated beyond recognition. (05/10/99)
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Weekend, 8-9, 1999
Health & Body:
Urge Lips made for ... By Greg Nott
In a subculture as sexually liberated as they come, why is kissing such an issue for some gay men? (05/08/99)
News:
The bitter end By Jack Hitt
The mistrial in the Steele case marks Kenneth Starr's induction into the American hall of shame. (05/07/99)
People:
The Raw and the Cooked The world's most miserable gazillionaire By Douglas Cruickshank
Even a full-blown Portis gnasherfest couldn't get big gorgonzola Mike Eisner to say cheese. (05/08/99)
Technology:
Silicon Follies By Thomas Scoville
Chapter 16: Looking for a gal who's quick with a vaporizer. (05/08/99)
21st Challenge No. 21 By Charlie Varon and Jim Rosenau
Results: "Microsoft is my shepherd" and other prayers for the digital age. (05/08/99)
Travel:
Alaskan odyssey By Zachary Karabell
Our last wilderness is a place of enduring angst and enlightenment. (05/08/99)
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Friday, May 7, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
"The Mummy" All dressed up and no place to go By Andrew O'Hehir
Despite his studly physique, Brendan Fraser isn't enough of an action hero to keep "The Mummy" from unraveling. (05/07/99)
"Three Seasons" Poetry in motion By Andrew O'Hehir
Tony Bui's "Three Seasons" is a cinematic love poem to Vietnam. (05/07/99)
Log Dubious doo-wop By Jeff Stark
Geezers demand truth in oldies rock performances. (05/07/99)
Television By Joyce Millman
Season finales for "Martial Law," "The Practice"; Lisa Simpson joins Mensa (05/07/99)
Books:
Ivory Tower The shock of the familiar By Sandra E. Stevens
When a teacher turns out to be a dead ringer for your ex-boyfriend, what's a girl to do? (05/07/99)
Log Condé Nast writers launch a literary magazine By Craig Offman
Tin House opens its doors. (05/07/99)
Reviews "Clear Springs: A Memoir" By Bobbie Ann Mason
Reviewed by Melanie Rehak: Bobbie Ann Mason left Kentucky for New York City, but the writer in her stayed home on the farm. (05/07/99)
Comics:
The Dark Hotel Conclusion: The terrible fate of Lady Blue; the unhappy end of Peter Dook (05/07/99)
Health & Body:
Delusional halitosis By Mary Roach
You think you have bad breath but you don't. Or do you? (05/07/99)
Letters:
Letters Should geezers get (or give up) the girls? Tapper betrays anti-gun slant.(05/07/99)
Media:
Alt Millennial-time religion By Jenn Shreve
The L.A. Weekly gets spiritual; poo falls from the sky in Salt Lake City. (05/07/99)
Mothers Who Think:
Minor saints By Janis Cooke Newman
My grandmother's small gestures of love live on between me and my son. (05/07/99)
News:
Israel's Russian muscle By David Tuller
No longer second-class citizens, the recent immigrants are emerging as vital swing voters. (05/07/99)
Jesse Ventura's gaffe riot By Jake Tapper
From dumb racial jokes to self-serving politics, the Minnesota governor's past predicted his future. (05/07/99)
People:
Nothing Personal Lawsuit time in Monicaland By Amy Reiter
Monica sued for causing injuries; it's hard being Hef; but really, really tough being Liam. (05/07/99)
Technology:
Web of doom By Scott Rosenberg
Post-Littleton, paranoid media pundits seem blind to the line between the computer screen and reality -- just like the killers. (05/07/99)
Log The end of the road for Pascal? By Peter Wayner
A venerable language falls victim to changing programming fashions. (05/07/99)
Travel:
Wanderlust The Argentine art of flirting By Kaitlin Quistgaard
A young American learns to stop resisting and love the piropo. (05/07/99)
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Thursday, May 6, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
Queen of the cross-dressers By Stephanie Zacharek
From the dignified decadence of "Shakespeare in Love" to the gender-bending of "Velvet Goldmine" and "Orlando," Oscar-winning costume designer Sandy Powell is remaking fashion history. (05/06/99)
Television By Joyce Millman
Power failure leads to chaos on "ER"; the Dylans vs. the Stillers on "Deathmatch" (05/06/99)
Books:
For love and money By Charles Taylor
A '40s English novel, recently reissued, glitters with the hard edge of Madonna's "Material Girl." (05/06/99)
Log Oprah sends "Heaven on Earth" jacket to hell By Craig Offman
Trademark misuse forces publisher to recall a new book. (05/06/99)
Reviews "Home Town" By Tracy Kidder
Reviewed by Kristin Eliasberg: It's a nice town. A very nice town. Zzzzzzzz .... (05/06/99)
Comics:
Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling
When every teen has a gun, all will be safe!! (05/06/99)
Health & Body:
Stop that damned ringing By Mike Perry
How tinnitus can drive you crazy, and how it can be cured. (05/06/99)
Letters:
Letters "Another Littleton" may be easy to find; is Keanu Reeves fan for real? (05/06/99)
Media:
We are all page-view whores now By James Poniewozik
Now that we online journalists know exactly what people want to read, we've got to find something that'll stop us from -- horrors! -- giving it to them. (05/06/99)
Mothers Who Think:
Zero tolerance for slaughter By Sallie Tisdale
Get a backbone, America: Ban all handguns. (05/06/99)
News:
Macedonia closes border By Rob Mank
Thousands of Kosovar Albanians are stranded or turned back. (05/06/99)
Bungling in Buffalo abortion killing By Jeff Stein
Kopp finally charged after FBI harasses the wrong men. (05/06/99)
Don't look back By David Horowitz
Can noblesse oblige work for the GOP? (05/06/99)
Declaring war on undeclared war By Jake Tapper
A lawsuit could force President Clinton to get Congress' OK on Kosovo. (05/06/99)
People:
Nothing Personal Jailtime for Bonzo By Amy Reiter
Cameron Reagan gets caged; B.A. stewardess gets naked; British women want smaller melons. (05/06/99)
Rogues' Gallery The CIA's purple haze By Douglas Cruickshank
TV stars run amok; geriatric criminals terrorize nation. (05/06/99)
Technology:
Rematch at the NT vs. Linux corral By Andrew Leonard
Testing lab invites another round of performance testing -- but Linux gurus charge the shootout is still rigged. (05/06/99)
The shooters and the shrinks By Mark Boal
After Littleton, the media declared that studies show computer games lead to violence. What studies? (05/06/99)
Travel:
Travel Advisor By Donald D. Groff
Our expert offers advice on villa renting, European rail passes, currency exchanging and timeshares. (05/06/99)
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Wednesday, May 5, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
Just "Before the Rain" By Laura Rozen
War hits close to home for Macedonia's most celebrated filmmaker. (05/05/99)
Television By Joyce Millman
Take Your Girlfriend to Work Day on "Law & Order" (05/05/99)
Books:
Log Britain turns to jelly; the States get Spammed By Craig Offman
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Ivory Tower Our scalpels, our selves By Paige Arthur
Sander Gilman slices to the heart of the boob job and finds the ideals of the liberal enlightenment in his "Making the Body Beautiful: A Cultural History of Aesthetic Surgery." (05/05/99)
Reviews "Music for Torching" By A.M. Homes
Reviewed by Courtney Hudak: Is A.M. Homes the master of shock or the mistress of schlock? (05/05/99)
Comics:
The K Chronicles By Keith Knight
Confusing obsessions (05/05/99)
Health & Body:
Precarious prescriptions By Rob Waters
Can your doctor's poor penmanship hurt you? (05/05/99)
Letters:
Letters The anti-abortion movement lives; trepanation advocates have little to lose.(05/05/99)
Mothers Who Think:
Dancing with death By Camille Peri
The loss of a child leaves a hole in your heart that never heals. (05/05/99)
News:
Will Macedonia unravel? By David Rieff
Imagine 26 million Cuban refugees on the shores of Miami, and you'll understand how NATO's mission in Kosovo has destabilized the region. (05/05/99)
Endangered congressman? By Jake Tapper
Former allies target a term-limit promise-breaker.(05/05/99)
People:
Nothing Personal Sassy singing Serbs won't bare all By Amy Reiter
Group refuses Playboy assignment unless bombs stop; eau de wrestler coming your way; custom boots for the royal pooches. (05/05/99)
Survival of the cutest By Cintra Wilson
Hot young magician David Blaine gets all the love while the best tricksters get hardly any. (05/05/99)
Technology:
Silicon Follies By Thomas Scoville
Chapter 15: Where elite geeks meet to eat -- and run. (05/05/99)
The April Fools stock hoax caper and the FBI By David Zgodzinski
All these pranksters wanted to do was raise an alarm about Net investing. So why are they being investigated and sued? (05/05/99)
Log Keeping Linux in tune By Andrew Leonard
After taking a "beating" from a well-oiled NT machine, open-source mavens rush to collect performance-enhancing tips. (05/05/99)
Travel:
Bali moon By Laurie Gough
A wanderer enjoys the night sky with a new friend. (05/05/99)
Book Bag By Don George
Laurie Gough's "Kite Strings of the Southern Cross" poignantly depicts the pleasures and perils of wanderlust. (05/05/99)
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Tuesday, May 4, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
Ink Polaroids By Douglas Wolk
Our man snaps imaginary photographs at Belle & Sebastian's Bowlie Weekender music festival. (05/04/99)
Sharps & Flats Reviews of new releases from the Kinks, Wynton Marsalis, the Mayflies USA and Robert Cray. (05/04/99)
Television By Joyce Millman
Sign-off for "NewsRadio"?; "Sports Night" season wrap (05/04/99)
Books:
Cowboy love By Lily Burana
For city women, the Wild West is a risky fetish. For city men, it's a dirty job. (05/04/99)
Log The Beats order lunch By Craig Offman
A documentary captures the last meeting of Bowles, Burroughs and Ginsberg. (05/04/99)
Reviews "Shadows, Fire, Snow: The Life of Tina Modotti" By Patricia Albers
Reviewed by Sarah Coleman: A biographer uncovers new material on the Italian-born photographer, actress, revolutionary and spy. (05/04/99)
Health & Body:
Urge Everything she had By Virginia Vitzthum
Against the backdrop of an AIDS conference, one public health expert decides to accept a dangerous gift of love. (05/04/99)
Log The nose knows By Jon Bowen
Are men like mice when it comes to pheromones? (05/04/99)
Letters:
Letters Paglia fuels debate on schools; should we blame guns -- or government? (05/04/99)
Mothers Who Think:
My other mother By Martha Beck
To learn how to mother well, you must first be mothered yourself. (05/04/99)
News:
Hitler youth? By Joe Conason
What little we know of the Columbine killers' motives point to the dangers lurking in dark, Nazi-worshiping corners of alienated youth culture (05/04/99)
Crazy as they wanna be By Debra Dickerson
Black people take secret -- and unwarranted -- comfort in the fact that mass killers tend to be white. (05/04/99)
White lies By Jill Nelson
Asking "How could it happen here?" reveals the racism behind our thinking about violence. (05/04/99)
People:
Brilliant Careers She's all chat By Mary Elizabeth Williams
Oprah Winfrey spent 20 years becoming the most powerful woman in broadcasting. Then she told her viewers to turn off their televisions and pick up a book. (05/04/99)
Nothing Personal Confessions of a cocktail party crasher con cojones By Amy Reiter
It's kind of like the Mafia: getting out's a little tougher than getting in. (05/04/99)
Technology:
Pathfinder, we hardly knew ye By Scott Rosenberg
The demise of Time Warner's megasite provides a caution to today's portals -- and a clue to the cable takeover wars. (05/04/99)
Log Attention shoppers! This display made with electronic ink! By Janelle Brown
A long-heralded revolutionary technology makes its debut hawking merchandise in a mall store. (05/04/99)
Travel:
Vagabonding A spy on "The Beach" By Rolf Potts
Our correspondent reports from behind the scenes of Leonardo DiCaprio's new movie. (05/04/99)
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Monday, May 3, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
Happy Mother's Day, and screw you By Joyce Millman
Raise a glass to Livia Soprano, the meanest mother on TV.(05/03/99)
Television By Joyce Millman
CBS's shameless crossovers; Connery! Cage! No babes!(05/03/99)
Books:
Ivory Tower Was Lincoln gay? By Carol Lloyd
Firebrand Larry Kramer says he has the evidence to prove it. Lincoln scholars are holding their fire until they see it. Get ready for the second Civil War. (05/03/99)
Book Bag In play By Pete Hamill
A legendary newspaperman picks five sports novels that really hit home. (05/03/99)
Log Elizabeth Wurtzel's coverup By Craig Offman
"Bitch" to get a more modest look in paperback. (05/03/99)
Reviews "China Chic" By Valerie Steele and John S. Major
Reviewed by Stephanie Zacharek:
Foot binding was barbarous, but that doesn't mean shoes weren't fabulous. (05/03/99)
Comics:
This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
We had to destroy Kosovo in order to save it! (05/03/99)
Health & Body:
Cloning conundrums By Dawn MacKeen
Who gets the money if Bill Gates decides to reproduce himself? (05/03/99)
Letters:
Letters Credit cards as financial crack; does race determine intelligence? (05/03/99)
Media:
Up in smoke By James Poniewozik
The billboard-liberation movement gathers to celebrate 20 years of ad "improvement" and smoke on the Marlboro Man's grave. (05/03/99)
Mothers Who Think:
Friends and mothers By Michelle Albert
Motherhood changes a friendship, but not the love behind it. (05/03/99)
News:
Winning ugly By Alex Todorovic
Amid his public realtions coup, Jesse Jackson makes a series of diplomatic faux pas.(05/03/99)
A Serbian opposition to Milosevic? By Andrej Krickovic
Vuk Draskovic's words of criticism kindled hope that he might speak for a Kosovo compromise, but his own nationalism could stand in the way. (05/03/99)
Coming out shooting By Jake Tapper
In the wake of the Littleton massacre, the NRA holds its convention in Denver, less than 20 miles away from Columbine High School.(05/03/99)
People:
Nothing Personal Thief to Sonny: I got your flowers, babe By Amy Reiter
Where have all Sonny's flowers gone? Isikoff gloats; Dan Quayle: voice of reason. (05/03/99)
Obit: Oliver Reed Oliver, you "baddie," we miss you already. (05/03/99)
Technology:
Log Xerox PARC loses a "ubiquitous computing" guru By Andrew Leonard
The research lab's chief technologist passed away this week -- and there's already a memorial Web site. (05/03/99)
Reviews Words in your ear By Janelle Brown
Audible's digital Walkman delivers on-demand spoken-word programming -- but only in limited doses. (05/03/99)
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Weekend, May 1-2, 1999
Health & Body:
How much wood? By Susie Bright
Jack makes his porn debut and discovers the pleasures and pressures of on-the-clock knocking (05/01/99)
People:
Shrink Rap The disturbing case of "Ben H.," the messianic marksman By By Justin Frank, M.D.
Never himself, even in childhood, and armed with a high power delusional system, acting was a perfect profession for this patient. (05/03/99)
The Raw and the Cooked This is my mind on PEZ By Douglas Cruickshank
Plus: The adventures of the unholy trinity and Mother Bernadette. (05/03/99)
Technology:
Silicon Follies By Thomas Scoville
Chapter 14: Programming in vampire mode -- or, the long dark night of the code (05/01/99)
Travel:
San Francisco romance By Laura Fraser
A passionate reunion rekindles a resident's love affair with the city. (05/01/99)
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