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FRIDAY
FEBRUARY 27, 1998
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Television Tara and Michelle
skate; "Pocahontas" on
Disney (02/27/98)
21st Talking 'bout my "Net generation" By Andrew Leonard
Will kids who "Grow Up Digital" change the world? (02/27/98)
Books Reviewed by D.T. Max
"The Smithsonian Institution": The author's 24th novel is about a young boy who finds, while at the Smithsonian Institution, that he can change the course of history (02/27/98)
Mother's Who Think Slaves in the family By Maryanne Vollers
A white man's odyssey into his clan's secret history is a searing look at the most shameful event in America's past
(02/27/98)
Newsreal Blumenthal blasts Starr as he exits grand jury room
By Jonathan Broder
Sidney Blumenthal: "The entire Whitewater scandal comes down to a (Ken Starr) self-esteem problem"
(02/27/98)
Media Circus All along the ivory tower
By Michael Batty
A recent Dylan Symposium at Stanford proved that as rock fans, academics can babble with the most brain-dead metalheads
(02/27/98)
Sexpert Opinion By Susie Bright
Backdoor mania: on the growing
popularity of anal sex and new books on the subject by Jack Morin and Tristan Taormino
Letters Horowitz is no
victim of "McCarthyism" (02/27/98)
Salon Recommends Our critics pick the best in music, movies and books (02/27/98)
Music By Gavin McNett
And the Winner is ... SOY BOMB! Other than a few impromptu stage dives, the 1998 Grammy awards turned out to be a disappointingly dignified affair
(02/27/98)
Entertainment "illtown" Reviewed by Charles Taylor
Crime story: Nick Gomez's mesmerizing "illtown" may be the best movie you won't get to see this year
(02/27/98)
Wanderlust Cajun Mardi Gras By Margaret Spillane and Bruce Shapiro
Singing, dancing, drinking and other mayhem in rural Louisiana
(02/27/98)
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THURSDAY
FEBRUARY 26, 1998
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Television Kramer moves to Florida; "Moronica's Closet" (02/26/98)
Mothers Who Think Wise women By Jonathan Broder
Three women cross the Israeli-Palestinian divide
(02/26/98)
The Salon Interview P.D. James By Jennifer Reese
The art of murder (02/26/98)
Books Reviewed by Jennifer Howard
From an intrepid British journalist, a peek inside the sometimes nefarious goings-on at the venerable auction house (02/26/98)
Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling
Starr extends inquiry to Jimmy Carter -- targets "lust in his heart"
(02/26/98)
Letters Starr exposé: Pulitzer Prize or White House PR? (02/26/98)
Media Circus The terrible mystery of Gayl Jones By Sally Eckhoff
Why did a brilliant novelist's life spiral into obsessive horror
(02/26/98)
Music Reviewed by Gina Arnold
Tommy Keene:You must buy this album now and indulge it as if was a big ol' box of bad-for-you chocolate; as if you'd never heard the Beastie Boys, DJ Shadow or Beck
(02/26/98)
Newsreal Toothless hounds By Andrew Ross
The New York Times and Washington Post may finally be growing weary of Kenneth Starr's out-of-control investigation. But their expressions of dismay are too little and too late
(02/26/98)
21st Hatch vs. Gates By Marcia Stepanek
Senator says Microsoft
demanded more sympathetic voices at next week's hearing (02/26/98)
Wanderlust Looking for Kathmandu By Jeff Greenwald
Gossip, chickens and sex in Nepal
(02/26/98)
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WEDNESDAY
FEBRUARY 25, 1998
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Television Grammy Awards; Harvey Fierstein on "Ellen"
(02/25/98)
21st A doctorate in "Doom" By Moira Muldoon
For students at the world's first video game university, it's all math and little play (02/25/98)
Books Reviewed by David Futrelle
"Always in Pursuit": Punditry about politics and culture, from the New York Daily News columnist and New Republic contributing editor (02/25/98)
The Salon Interview Stanley Crouch By Jonathan Broder
White/black ... men/women. Get over it -- we're all American (02/25/98)
Unzipped Twisted sisters By Courtney Weaver
How is it that women a few years apart in age can be light years away from each other in their attitudes toward sex?
(02/25/98)
Media Circus Lady Macgrunge By Michelle Goldberg
"Kurt and Courtney" paints a horrific picture of Courtney Love as manipulative, power-mad and possibly murderous (02/25/98)
Mothers Who Think Drama Queen
Back-stabbing, ankle-biting sluts ... and the women who loved them
(02/25/98)
Newsreal It's time to investigate the investigator By Bruce Shapiro
Although he may think differently, Kenneth Starr is not above the law
(02/25/98)
Letters Anthrax is not a virus, stupid
(02/25/98)
Music Reviewed by Michael Ullman
Lovano and Rubalcaba: One of year's best jazz discs
(02/25/98)
Wanderlust
Landing the Big One By D. T. Max
Fishing and frolicking in Cabo San Lucas
(02/25/98)
The K Chronicles By Keith Knight
Service with a sneer
(02/25/98)
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TUESDAY
FEBRUARY 24, 1998
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Television Sipowicz has health problems on "NYPD Blue"; new "Buffy"
(02/24/98)
21st Let's Get This Straight By Scott Rosenberg
The case of the hijacked haiku
(02/24/98)
Books Reviewed by David Bowman
"NixonCarver": A smart, funny first novel about an imaginary friendship between Richard M. Nixon and Raymond Carver (02/24/98)
Letters Cintra on skating: 4.1 to 6.0
(02/24/98)
Mothers who Think Wild Thing By Polly Shulman
Love and justice: Two teenage novels (02/24/98)
Media Circus How do you spell Yiddish? By Lee Dembart
The weekly Forward has finally decided to embrace the modern
spelling of Yiddish -- but not without much wringing of hands
(02/24/98)
Today in news:
Prosecuting -- or persecuting? -- the prosecutors By Jonathan Broder
Critics of independent counsel Kenneth Starr are focusing on
prosecutors in his office who were found to have used highly coercive and
illegal tactics in previous cases
(02/24/98)
Starr chamber By Mollie Dickenson
The deep and twisted roots of Kenneth Starr's Clinton inquisition stretch back to the dark corners of the 1992 presidential campaign
(02/24/98)
Music Reviewed by Charles Taylor
The latest from the French pop band Autour de Lucie sounds like everything
the Cranberries should be, with none of that band's taste for pretension
(02/24/98)
Story Minute By Carol Lay
Sound Effects
(02/24/98)
Wanderlust Arigato, Nagano
By Cintra Wilson
Weird TV, naked hot springs and the big heart of Japan
(02/24/98)
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MONDAY
FEBRUARY 23, 1998
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Television Spike Lee on the Birmingham bombing; Peggy Fleming on her breast surgery (02/23/98)
21st By Andrew Leonard
Schools of hard knocks: "Lock ups" for "defiant teens" use questionable tactics -- on the Web and off (02/23/98)
Right On! By David Horowitz
Paging Joe McCarthy: There's a conspiracy to undermine the government. Sound familiar?
(02/23/98)
Mothers Who Think Baby hunger By Heather Chaplin
The unexpected ticking of my biological clock
(02/23/98)
Today in Newsreal:
Uncle Sam regrets ... By Dennis Bernstein
When U.S. officials warn of "regrettable civilian casualties" resulting from a renewed bombing of Iraq, they should talk to Rema al-Attar
(02/23/98)
Finish the job? Not in our lifetime By Jonathan Broder
The U.S. can't "go all the way" in Iraq because, beyond Saddam Hussein, there's nowhere to go. Besides, his neighbors need to keep him around
(02/23/98)
Media Circus Stop the millennium -- I want to get off By Virginia Heffernan
As the year 2000 approacheth, so doth a Biblical plague of special issues of news weeklies
(02/23/98)
Books Reviewed by Dwight Garner
"Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table": A memoir, from the New York Times restaurant critic, about how food can be a way to make sense of the world
(02/23/98)
Letters Salon's Olympic coverage: from the sublime to the racist
(02/23/98)
Music Reviewed by Natasha Stovall
"Star Rise: Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Michael Brook Remixed": These South Asian/British DJs implicitly understand the connection between Qawwali
worship music and the modern dance floor (02/23/98)
Wanderlust By Cintra Wilson
Tara and Michelle are great and I am a worthless protozoa clinging to their skates
(02/23/98)
This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
U.S. News foils Tom's plan for world domination
(02/23/98)
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FRIDAY
FEBRUARY 20, 1998
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Television Big Olympics weekend, "The X-Files," "Simpsons" (02/20/98)
21st Challenge No. 6: By Charlie Varon and Jim Rosenau
Find-and-replace goofs. Plus: results of our "Ticklers" challenge (02/20/98)
Books Reviewed by Elizabeth Judd
"Enduring Love": A tense psychological thriller, from the author of "Black Dogs," about a balloon accident and its effect on a group of survivors (02/20/98)
Dreams of Bill By Camille Peri
Monica wasn't the only woman to dream of sleeping with the president. An excerpt from "Dreams of Bill," by Julian Anderson-Miller and Bruce Joshua Miller
(02/20/98)
The terror at home
By Jeff Stein
Two Vegas men arrested with anthrax virus: Worse terror threat than Saddam?
(02/20/98)
Media Circus Earth to Mars and Venus
By Mary Beth Williams
Earth to Mars and Venus: Relationship guru John Gray's syrupy new mag
(02/20/98)
Sound Salvation By Sarah Vowell
Tattoo by Versace: Courtney Love shuts herself up for acceptance in the straight world of Vanity Fair (02/20/98)
Letters Why is the NY Times so down on Clinton? (02/20/98)
Music Reviewed by Lori Leibovich
"Little Plastic Castle": Fame takes its toll on weary Ani DiFranco
(02/20/98)
Entertainment Salon's weekly guide to movies and television
Nil by Mouth Reviewed by Andrew O'Hehir
Gary Oldman's working class antiheroes find life nasty, brutish and short
(02/20/98)
Live Flesh Reviewed by Charles Taylor
Is Almodóvar all grown up or just worn out?
(02/20/98)
Wanderlust Ice follies By Cintra Wilson
I sold my soul to the scalpers to watch mechanized super-teens Michelle and Tara kiss ass?
(02/20/98)
Wanderlust Figure skating shocker By Jonathan Broder
Lipinski upsets Kwan to take the gold. What happened? Skating expert Christine Brennan analyzes events on -- and off -- the ice in Nagano (02/20/98)
Wanderlust Lost in Nagano By Cintra Wilson
Our correspondent's innocent search for the men's slalom turns into an amazing half-day odyssey (02/20/98)
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THURSDAY
FEBRUARY 19, 1998
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Television Stormin' Norman joins NBC: Networks gear up for Desert Storm II (02/19/98)
Mothers Who Think Second thoughts By Sallie Tisdale
The wilderness: Pondering the distance that separates women in my life
(02/19/98)
Books Reviewed by Sally Eckhoff
"Why the Tree Loves the Ax": A disaffected and often violent thriller about a young woman in the South, from the author of the novel "Sister" (02/19/98)
Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling
The land obsessed with earlobes (02/19/98)
Letters Paglia, lay off Chelsea (02/19/98)
Media Circus Looking for some company By James Surowiecki
By snapping up Tripod, search engine Lycos hopes to convince its massive audience to hang out a while
(02/19/98)
Music Reviewed by Paul Festa
So winsome are the tunes on London's "Music Played on the Titanic" that
they could almost get your mind off Leonardo DiCaprio
(02/19/98)
Newsreal Bigger than the pope By Andrew Jennings
A British investigative reporter who has
written about the International Olympic Committee shows how the head of the IOC tries to prove, as he once said, that the IOC is more powerful than the Catholic Church
(02/19/98)
21st Caught in the headlights By Aaron Weiss
What if we were as paranoid about cars as we are of the Net? (02/19/98)
Today in Wanderlust:
Flying away By Gary Kamiya
Triumph on the slopes -- and parties all night long
(02/19/98)
Scalpers, skiers and cultural schizophrenia By Cintra Wilson
Our woman in Nagano checks out deluxe slopeside port-o-lets, "child hornet" snacks and other Olympic oddities
(02/19/98)
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WEDNESDAY
FEBRUARY 18, 1998
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Television Who's in final "Seinfeld"? Who isn't?
(02/18/98)
21st Let's Get This Straight By Scott Rosenberg
Once more, into the interactive TV breach (02/18/98)
Books Reviewed by Mark Schapiro
"Waiting for Fidel": An social assessment of contemporary Cuba, from a writer who tried (and failed) to gain access to Fidel Castro (02/18/98)
Unzipped By Courtney Weaver
Hair, like life, is not always fair: Courtney Weaver's hair stylist knows as well as anyone that sometimes you can't just cut it off
(02/18/98)
Media Circus Under the Covers By James Poniewozik
Separated at death? Reports of Spy magazine's death are greatly exaggerated (02/18/98)
Mothers Who Think Are you a crystal vase? By Joyce Millman
If you can answer these 20 questions, you've watched way too much of the Olympics (02/18/98)
Newsreal Not over the hill By Eve Pell
Move over, Picabo: The rise of granny athletes
(02/18/98)
Letters Maine's gay vote was rejection of special privilege (02/18/98)
Music Reviewed by Mark Athitakis
In a rock world that's built for speed, Bedhead are --
surprisingly, elegantly -- the ones who are moving faster and seeing farther (02/18/98)
Today in Wanderlust
Cold war By Gary Kamiya
The Czechs battle the Russians on ice (02/18/98)
The Christlike and redemptive powers of ice hockey
By Cintra Wilson
Our second Salon correspondent in Nagano reflects on Olympic evolution, personality cults and Russian mafiosi
(02/18/98)
The K Chronicles By Keith Knight
El Niño -- unnatural disaster story (02/18/98)
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TUESDAY
FEBRUARY 17, 1998
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Television Fox counters the Olympics: Gnarly car crashes (02/17/98)
Ask Camille By Camille Paglia
The uses and abuses of Chelsea Clinton
(02/17/98)
21st Festival in search of a medium By Karlin Lillington
Cannes' multimedia showcase loses its way
(02/17/98)
Books Reviewed by Peter Kurth
"Bloodstained Kings": This thriller about a New Orleans psychiatrist who's drawn into a vast sea of corruption has an unusually nasty edge (02/17/98)
Letters Curling fans
protest callous Kamiya jibes (02/17/98)
Media Circus Bestseller Hell By Jon Carroll
"Cat & Mouse": Fearless serial reviewer strikes again, and James Patterson is in his cross hairs
(02/17/98)
Newsreal The New York Times: All the facts that are fit to omit By Gene Lyons
On the Clinton scandals, the Newspaper of Record is the newspaper of insinuations, half-truths, omissions and flat-out inaccuracies
(02/17/98)
Mother's Who Think Addicted to day care By Phaedra Hise
If it takes a village and you don't have one, a good child-care provider may be just what you need (02/17/98)
Hockey stars, scalpers, expats and party animals By Gary Kamiya
The Olympics are like the pilgrimages of old, with holy relics (the medals), saints (the athletes), evil bishops (corrupt figure-skating judges) and an unruly array of followers
(02/17/98)
Wanderlust Plastered in Nagano By Koya Ide
Olympics sponsors' ads are all over town -- and the locals don't like it (02/17/98)
Music Reviewed by John Milward
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band: Sad deaths, the fire of youth and a brotherhood born of the blues
(02/17/98)
This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
Lies and conspiracies (02/17/98)
Story Minute By Carol Lay (02/17/98)
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FRIDAY
FEBRUARY 13, 1998
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Television "Simpsons" and "The X-Files" explore dark side of the Net (02/13/98)
21st Metal Madness By Andrew Leonard
Headbanger wars: The battle for heavy metal on Web (02/13/98)
The fastest man on ice by Gary Kamiya
The downhill is canceled again and scalpers are fleecing your
correspondent, but a thrilling men's 1,500-meter speed skating race brings the
Olympic spirit alive
(02/13/98)
Valentine's Special
Mother's Who Think Losing it By Lori Leibovich
No lover but the first will ever know me as both a child and a woman (02/13/98)
Cupid is armed and dangerous By Barry Yourgrau
A love affair run insanely, humiliatingly amok reminds the author that Cupid is armed and dangerous
(02/13/98)
Love and reading By Alain de Botton
A reader's valentine: The delightful and dismaying similarities between love and reading
(02/13/98)
Infidelity Inc. By David Hudson
In Germany, a new service takes all the fuss and muss out of having an affair (02/13/98)
Wanderlust Passionate and penniless in Paris By Maxine Rose Schur
A magical memory: lust and romance blossom when a young couple camps out in the City of Light (02/13/98)
Books Reviewed by Maud Casey
"Nobody's Girl": Set in small-town New Mexico, the author's second novel is about a young school teacher who becomes involved in a local mystery (02/13/98)
Today in News:
The heart of the matter By Geoff Shandler
Researchers have discovered what romantics have long suspected: that chaos and love are the same, and they're both good for the heart
(02/13/98)
If gays are no good, then neither is their money By Daniel Reitz
According to the voters of Maine, gays deserve no more rights than those of a dog. Like dogs, perhaps they shouldn't be paying taxes
(02/13/98)
Media Circus Hollywoodland
By Catherine Seipp
Option this column! Megabucks deals between magazines and movie studios
(02/13/98)
Sexpert Opinion By Susie Bright
No interns, please. Slave labor costs too much (02/13/98)
Letters Hormonal analysis of presidency is absurd (02/13/98)
Salon Recommends Our critics pick the best in music, movies and books (02/13/98)
Music By Mark Athitakis
R.I.P. Carl Wilson: The brother who made the Beach Boys rock
(02/13/98)
Entertainment Salon's weekly guide to movies and television
The Wedding Singer Reviewed by Stephanie Zacharek
Wedding belle: Drew Barrymore steals the bouquet from Adam Sandler
(02/13/98)
Sphere Reviewed by Charles Taylor
Magical underwater photography, soggy story
(02/13/98)
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THURSDAY
FEBRUARY 12, 1998
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Television Battle of the bulges: Male skaters slug it out (02/12/98)
Mothers Who Think A Few Good Men By Dawn MacKeen
Banking on poor women: By giving small loans to poor women, a Bangladeshi banker is fighting poverty and creating a revolution in the banking world
(02/12/98)
Books Reviewed by Edward Neuert
"Cuba Libre": A thriller about gun running during the Spanish American war, from the author of "Rum Punch" and many other novels (02/12/98)
Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling
That girl thinks you're cute (02/12/98)
Letters "Barney" bashing: Why grown-ups just don't get it (02/12/98)
Media Circus CBS drops the ball in Nagano By Daniel Radosh
Silent snow: CBS's sleep-inducing Olympic coverage
(02/12/98)
Music Reviewed by Geoff Edgers
Mose Allison's cool, smoky growl
(02/12/98)
Today in Newsreal:
Blowback By Jonathan Broder
Are journalists now fair game in the sex scandal wars?
(02/12/98)
The unholy alliance between Kenneth Starr's leaky office and the press By Joe Conason
It's the law, stupid. Leaking grand jury testimony violates moral
and professional codes too
(02/12/98)
21st Friction or fact? By Andrew Leonard
Trendy theories of a "friction-free economy" hit some bumps (02/12/98)
Wanderlust Retro burger By Gary Kamiya
Our Olympics correspondant muses on women's hockey, Japanese English, the quest for tosto and other cross-cultural oddities
(02/12/98)
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WEDNESDAY
FEBRUARY 11, 1998
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Television "The Cutting Edge": TNT's figure skating talk show
(02/11/98)
21st Just pay for it By Andrew Leonard.
Technology may bring the Olympics to your desktop someday -- but not for free (02/11/98)
Books Reviewed by David Futrelle
"The Beast in the Nursery": From the quirky and lucid British psychoanalyst, a look at the origins of -- and the problems inherent in -- curiosity (02/11/98)
Unzipped By Courtney Weaver
Party girls: Together with Nigel again, Kath unwittingly meets her rival
(02/11/98)
Media Circus More is less By Charles Taylor
"Titanic's" Oscar stampede points to a Hollywood future full of bloat and mediocrity (02/11/98)
Mothers Who Think Time for One Thing By Beth Wolfensberger Singer
A jigsaw puzzle or a merry widow?
(02/11/98)
Newsreal Locked in a straitjacket By Andrew Ross
Robert Reich attacks Clinton's weaknesses (not the sexual ones)
(02/11/98)
Letters Monica is not a sexual role model (02/11/98)
Music Reviewed by Gavin McNett
The Damned live: Geezers make the best punks (02/11/98)
Wanderlust Stoned on ice by Gary Kamiya
Forty -- well, 32 -- maids with 40 mops sweep away a cynic's doubts about curling
(02/11/98)
The K Chronicles By Keith Knight
Hard truths I learned as a child (02/11/98)
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TUESDAY
FEBRUARY 10, 1998
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Television "The Brain Eater": Nova's mad cow special; new "NYPD Blue"
(02/10/98)
21st The 21st Challenge No. 5 By Charlie Varon and Jim Rosenau
Ticklers for every situation. Plus: Haiku error message winners
(02/10/98)
The Salon Interview Martin Amis By Laura Miller
The sadistic muse: Martin Amis talks about his penchant for torturing his characters, the seductiveness of suicide and disturbing memories from his past (02/10/98)
Books Reviewed by Laura Green
"Black and Blue": A gripping domestic novel about a woman in flight from her past, and from her abusive husband (02/10/98)
The Awful Truth By Cintra Wilson
Media culpa: The media is the psycho-social viewmaster through which we watch our own disgraces
(02/10/98)
Letters Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath: Setting the record straight
(02/10/98)
Mothers who Think Why I miss those loathsome "Barney" kids By Carol Snow
Unlike our own children, we could turn them off when they got really
obnoxious (02/10/98)
Media Circus Come back, O.J., all is forgiven By Vivienne Walt
Monica Lewinsky: You're no O.J. Simpson
(02/10/98)
Newsreal The horny dilemma By Fred Branfman
Former Gary Hart aide: Why we should prefer sexually satisfied leaders
(02/10/98)
Music Reviewed by Natasha Stovall
Sex, drugs and R&R: The Donnas deliver the basics
(02/10/98)
Story Minute By Carol Lay
The tunnel of life
(02/10/98)
Wanderlust Après moi, de luge
By Gary Kamiya
Getting a half-second high from the sport that gives a whole new meaning to the expression "balls out"
(02/10/98)
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MONDAY
FEBRUARY 9, 1998
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Television Tonya and Nancy, together again (02/02/98)
21st Windows on their world By Karlin Lillington
On site at Microsoft's museum and shop: Where the Windows never cease (02/09/98)
Books Reviewed by David Bowman
In this review, the author of "Let the Dog Drive" faces the ultimate critic of his second novel: himself (02/09/98)
Right On! By David Horowitz
The loafing class: Richly paid leftist professors securely ensconced in their irrelevant ivory towers (02/09/98)
Media Circus Whitewater, mon amour By Patricia Marx
Confession of an illicit romance with Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr
(02/09/98)
Newsreal Germ war games By Jeff Stein
If the U.S. finds itself back in the desert with Iraq, get out your gas masks
(02/09/98)
Mothers Who Think Chewing the fat with the girls By Elizabeth Rapoport
The Duchess of Pork and the Dershowitz of dieting serve up this season's most fascinating diet books (02/09/98)
Music Reviewed by Rennie Sparks
If you've ever wondered why Bernie Taupin remained in Elton John's shadow,Taupin's new CD with his side project, The Farmdogs, does much to answer the question (02/09/98)
This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
Seinfeld in space! (02/02/98)
Wanderlust Higher! Faster! Wetter! By Gary Kamiya
Salon's man in Japan reports on the thrill of victory -- and the agony of Nagano
(02/09/98)
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FRIDAY
FEBRUARY 6, 1998
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Television Let the games begin! (All 128 hours)
(02/06/98)
21st AOL's insecurity complex By David Cassel
The online service can't even keep its own staff bulletin boards private (02/06/98)
Today in Mothers Who Think
Bitter Fame By Jay Parini
"Birthday Letters" is a huge gift to readers that has cost Ted Hughes
dearly (02/06/98)
The good father By Kate Moses
Ted Hughes' "Birthday Letters" makes it clear, once and for all, whom his silence has been protecting all these years -- his children (02/06/98)
Books Reviewed by Stephanie Zacharek
"Night Beat": Mikal Gilmore's passionate R&R writing (02/06/98)
Newsreal The lady is not a tramp By Jenn Shreve
The lurid coverage of Monica Lewinsky's sex life tells us more about aging geezers in the press corps than it does about a young White House intern
(02/06/98)
Media Circus Let them make porn!
By Michelle Goldberg
Newly flush ex-scud stud Arthur Kent scolds Tom Brokaw and GE for
running NBC News like a brothel
(02/06/98)
Sound Salvation By Sarah Vowell
Country blues: America's soft spot for the ambitious southerner (02/06/98)
Letters Why Drudge drives baby-boomer journalists crazy (02/06/98)
Salon Recommends Our critics pick the best in music, movies and books (02/06/98)
Music Reviewed by David Fenton
Forget their coolness, their hard angles, their affected disaffection --
Unwound's payoff is much more powerful than the walls they put up to hide
it
(02/06/98)
Entertainment Salon's weekly guide to movies and television
The Replacement Killers Reviewed by Stephanie Zacharek
Movie star lost: A Hong Kong superstar gets lost in his Hollywood debut
(02/06/98)
Zero Effect Reviewed by Elizabeth Williams
It doesn't add up: A paranoid private detective on the trail of true love
(02/06/98)
Wanderlust Mondo Weirdo By Sarah Schmelling
Lonely and sick and far from home, I learned the power of art, velvet slippers and human kindness
(02/06/98)
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THURSDAY
FEBRUARY 5, 1998
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Television Tonya and Nancy plus Xena and Gabrielle (02/05/98)
Mothers Who Think Second Thoughts By Sallie Tisdale
Making Room: A mother bites her tongue and tries to seem neutral about her son's girlfriends
(02/05/98)
Books Reviewed by Beth Wolfensberger Singer
"Solo Variations": This first novel, about a young (and vaguely depressed) oboist in Manhattan, is set in the unforgiving world of classical music (02/05/98)
Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling
Five ways to improve America (02/05/98)
Letters How Melinda Gates influences Bill (02/05/98)
Media Circus Red planet By James Surowiecki
Celebrity owners can't save Planet Hollywood from an invasion of red ink
(02/05/98)
Music Reviewed by Dawn Eden
Kate St. John: A torch singer with healing powers
(02/05/98)
Newsreal The roots of the Clinton smear By Gene Lyons
The origins of the president's current troubles stretch back 10 years, to the stinking swamp water of Arkansas politics
(02/05/98)
21st Let's Get This Straight: By Scott Rosenberg
Technospeak, Part 2 -- a turnkey solution in every pot (02/05/98)
Wanderlust Soba, so good By Koji Yoshii
Savoring Nagano's specialty food
(02/05/98)
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WEDNESDAY
FEBRUARY 4, 1998
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Television "My Sergei" documentary on CBS; Daniel Baldwin found dazed and naked
(02/04/98)
Voyage to the bottom of TV By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV critic delves down in the drink with the lowest-rated shows on the air
(02/04/98)
21st The Net's new turf wars By Rebecca Vesely
Domain name mavericks take their case to Washington (02/04/98)
Books Reviewed by Eve Ensler
"The Vagina Monologues": An adaptation of the author's award-winning off-Broadway show, featuring 15 often comic meditations on the female anatomy (02/04/98)
Media Circus Under the Covers By James Poniewozik
Dunne deal: Absolut's new ad is a splash of commerce, a jigger of art
Plus: As Clinton's pants go down, his presidential greatness rises
(02/04/98)
Today in Mothers Who Think:
Drama Queen
Raise a stale cheeseburger in honor of the latest Drama Queen
(02/04/98)
Mothers Who Think Hot Flash By Tracy Quan
The end of girl talk: anthropologist Helen Fisher talks about polygamy, loyalty and why a bubbly young chick like Monica Lewinsky would confide in a sour stepsister like Linda Tripp
(02/04/98)
Newsreal Men in black (robes) By Bruce Shapiro
If you're looking for a "conspiracy" to bring down the President of the United States, you might start with the head of the United States Supreme Court
(02/04/98)
Letters Don't let tolerance for Clinton turn the workplace into a bordello
(02/04/98)
Music Reviewed by Natasha Stovall
DJ Shadow: Chaos theory on the dance floor (02/04/98)
Wanderlust The big steamy? By Courtney Weaver
Searching for sex in New Orleans
(02/04/98)
The K Chronicles By Keith Knight
Dad terrorizes bookstore (02/04/98)
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TUESDAY
FEBRUARY 3, 1998
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Television CBS' official Olympics preview; "ER" star gives back $1 million bonus
(02/03/98)
21st The little city that could By Doug McLellan
Tacoma's power company rolls its own Net and cable service
(02/03/98)
Books Reviewed by Stephanie Zacharek
"The Magician's Wife": A slim, forceful historical novel, set in 19th century France, about a magician, his wife and a dashing, but calculating, count (02/03/98)
Ask Camille By Camille Paglia
Camille Paglia analyzes Bill Clinton's powerful feelings of lust and repulsion toward women
(02/03/98)
Letters The Internet is no educational panacea
(02/03/98)
Mothers who Think City of Light (and laundry) By Debra Ollivier
Giving a new meaning to French laundry (02/03/98)
Media Circus The mystery of O.J. Simpson By Lori Leibovich
A journalist who interviewed the 20th century's most infamous acquitted man says that she still doesn't know if he did it -- and he may not either
(02/03/98)
Newsreal Subpoena me? Subpoena you! By Jonathan Broder
Role reversal: Clinton's lawyer subpoenas Starr and his cronies
(02/03/98)
Music By Joe Heim
Mary Lou Lord: For those not yet familiar with Mary Lou Lord, "Got No Shadow" works quite well as an introduction -- but longtime fans want more, not less, of her
signature writing style
(02/03/98)
Story Minute By Carol Lay
Life's dangerous tunnel
(02/03/98)
Wanderlust The Circuit
By Karl Taro Greenfeld
Hedonistic expats: Fear, drugs and soccer in Asia
(02/03/98)
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MONDAY
FEBRUARY 2, 1998
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Television Guess what -- men cheat, and they're different from women (02/02/98)
21st Drudging admiration By Mike Godwin
Why the gossip may win in court -- but lose in the press (02/02/98)
Telling a book by its cover By Christopher Hitchens
Maybe someone's sex life is nobody business, but in President Clinton's case, it tells us what we need to know about the man
(02/02/98)
The Salon Interview Toni Morrison By Zia Jaffrey
The Nobel Prize-winning author talks about her new book, "Paradise," what she learned from her marriage and why O.J. Simpson is innocent.
(02/02/98)
Entertainment "The Apostle" Reviewed by Charles Taylor
Preacherman Robert Duvall gives the finest performance of his career in the marvelously surprising "The Apostle"
(02/02/98)
Mothers Who Think Time for One Thing
By Inda Schaenen
Finding the cat person within: She thought a pet would be good for the kids, but it turned out to be even better for Mom
(02/02/98)
Newsreal Tonya's trials By Jane Meredith Adams
How a skating champion became a wrestling manager, failed singer and video poker addict
(02/02/98)
Media Circus Double snooze By Geoff Edgers
Doubletake, Robert Coles' high-minded rag, aspires to show ordinary
people -- but its writers keep sticking their heads in the way
(02/02/98)
Books Reviewed by David Futrelle
"Now and then: From Coney Island to Here": A rambling, frequently amusing memoir about a childhood spent on Coney Island, from the author of "Catch-22"
(02/02/98)
Letters What is it with Linda Tripp?
(02/02/98)
Music Reviewed by Gina Arnold
Pearl Jam has always made an effort to take the road less traveled, and this time, at least, that offbeat route is a distinctly pleasurable one (02/02/98)
Wanderlust Road Warrior By Jenn Shreve
Online ticketing, Part 2: Which service is best?
(02/02/98)
This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
When you wish upon a Starr (02/02/98)
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