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TUESDAY
MARCH 31, 1998
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Television Steve McQueen, king of cool; a bad day for Sipowicz
(03/31/98)
The Salon Interviews:
Ian McEwan By Dwight Garner
Dwight Garner talks to Ian McEwan, the black magician of contemporary fiction, about mortality, gossip and his arresting new novel, "Enduring Love"
(03/31/98)
Dorothy Allison By Laura Miller
Talking trash: Dorothy Allison talks about working-class guilt, the film version of "Bastard Out of Carolina" and coming out -- as a science-fiction fan
(03/31/98)
21st Let's Get This Straight By Scott Rosenberg
Media genuflect before Intel's royal-succession pageant
(03/31/98)
Books Reviewed by Rachel Pastan
"The Short History of a Prince": A meditative novel, set in Wisconsin, about a former ballet dancer trying to come to terms with his new life (03/31/98)
Ask Camille By Camille Paglia
Behind the baffling bevy of beautiful boys (03/31/98)
Letters Kudos for "A massive journalistic breakdown" (03/31/98)
Mothers who Think
Drama Queens
Lame lovers: Gum-chewing kissers, egomaniacal cheaters, line-dropping Olympic losers ... and the women who endured them (03/31/98)
Media Circus Sob sister By Laura Miller
The Banality of Heartbreak: Catherine Texier's sorry-assed divorce memoir
(03/31/98)
Newsreal Hell no, we won't throw away the key By Bruce Shapiro
Serious civil disobedience against the nation's drug sentencing
laws are being staged -- by prosecutors and senior judges
(03/31/98)
Music Reviewed by Andrew Hamlin
Van Halen's new front man sounds like Sammy just gargled a rock-salt truck
(03/31/98)
Story Minute By Carol Lay
Mr. Satan, Esq.
(03/31/98)
Wanderlust
The craziest road race of all
By Craig Bromberg
Deep dunes,wild wadis and grenade-wielding rebels enliven the Paris-Dakar Rally (03/31/98)
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MONDAY
MARCH 30, 1998
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Television NCAA Tournament: The last dance; "Melrose Place" finale
(03/30/98)
21st What's new is old By Andrew Leonard
The NCSA "What's New" page is a time capsule from the Web's infancy (03/30/98)
Books Reviewed by Stephen Prothero
"Inner Revolution": An exploration of Buddhism in America, from an academic noted for
playing James Carville to the Dalai Lama's President Clinton
(03/30/98)
Lying about genocide By David Corn
It's a bit late for President Clinton to feel Rwanda's pain. When he could have done something about it, he didn't
(03/30/98)
Flux rules By Laura Miller
Seen from the East, California is still the center of the universe
(03/30/98)
Mothers Who Think Making sense of Jonesboro
By Lori Leibovich
Trying to make sense of the Jonesboro murders
(03/30/98)
Newsreal Justice Department considers investigating key Starr witness By Murray Waas and Jonathan Broder
FBI recommends probe of alleged payments to Whitewater accuser David Hale
(03/30/98)
Media Circus Beyond monsters, addicts and subhumans By Joshua Wolf Shenk
An interview with Bill and Judith Moyers on their new PBS series on drug addiction and the personal journey that brought them to it
(03/30/98)
Letters Media coverage of Clinton
(03/30/98)
Music Reviewed by j. poet
Those currently enamored with the ironic hipness and faux feeling of the
Lounge Revival should give "Night and the City" a listen to find out what
real sophistication is all about (03/30/98)
Wanderlust Introduction to Beijing by Carrie Kirby
Off the tourist track, China's capital offers a wealth of daily pleasures -- from bird-loud morning markets to old peoples' after-hour dance parties
(03/30/98)
This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
Parallel-universe theory hailed by Marv, OJ (03/30/98)
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FRIDAY
MARCH 27, 1998
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Television Homer Simpson, nuclear sub captain; "Asteroid!" blows up NBC (03/27/98)
21st Tricks of the trade By David Futrelle
A Web radio show gives porn-site webmasters a place to talk shop and schmooze (03/27/98)
Books Reviewed by Andrew Leonard
"Girlfriend in a Coma": A glum novel, from the author of "Generation X," about a woman who
falls into a coma in 1977 and wakes up 20 years later (03/27/98)
Mothers Who Think Hey hey, ho ho, the matriarchy's got to go By Lori Leibovich
Gloria Steinem unleashes exciting news about young feminism not!
(03/27/98)
Newsreal A massive journalistic breakdown
By Mollie Dickenson
How the elite media has gotten the Clinton 'scandals' all wrong
(03/27/98)
Media Circus Stalemate
By Gary Kamiya
Clinton spinners vs. White House media: A damning portrait
(03/27/98)
Sexpert Opinion By Susie Bright
Howdy, Dixie! The Worn Out Slut Tour (03/27/98)
Letters Boy Scouts are out of touch with modern America
(03/27/98)
Salon Recommends Our critics pick the best in music, movies and books (03/27/98)
Music Reviewed by Mark Athitakis
Elvis' schizo tastes captured on "King's Record Collection"
(03/27/98)
Entertainment Salon's weekly guide to movies and television
A Price Above Rubies Reviewed by Charles Taylor
Renée Zellweger plays a sensual young wife rebelling against the
constraints of Orthodox Jewish life (03/27/98)
The Newton Boys Reviewed by Laura Miller
The mild bunch: Richard Linklater takes a stab at a stale genre
(03/27/98)
Wanderlust Longboard surfing women By Lisa Palac
Bonding with a brave new breed: The Capitola Women's Longboard Surfing Contest brings out a brave -- and benevolent -- new breed of surfer
(03/27/98)
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THURSDAY
MARCH 26, 1998
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Television Sweeps merger: "The Practice" and "Ally McBeal" trade characters (03/26/98)
In a league of their own By Joan Walsh
Even Dusty Baker told her to get a life, but one baseball fanatic and her daughter wouldn't think of missing spring training
(03/26/98)
Books Reviewed by Deborah Wilk
"Clement Greenberg: A Life": A biography (and a critical reexamination) of the powerful,
larger-than-life art critic who championed abstract expressionism (03/26/98)
Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling
Bad meat for pro-death-penalty vegetarians!
(03/26/98)
Letters Readers pan our Oscar columns (03/26/98)
Media Circus Foul ball By Jurek Martin
Topless ballgirls, umpire-tossing and $500 TV subscriptions: The sale of the Dodgers could mean the death of baseball, Murdoch-style
(03/26/98)
Music Reviewed by Marc Weidenbaum
The divisions between "TNT's" dozen tracks are about as certain as the divisions between genres that Tortoise so easily dismisses -- but then, if it did cohere entirely, it wouldn't be "post-rock"
(03/26/98)
Newsreal Behind the Clinton cocaine smear By Murray Waas
Salon reports on the secret investigation funded by conservative multimillionaire Richard Mellon Scaiffe, aimed at smearing President Clinton as a friend of cocaine smugglers
(03/26/98)
21st Renaissance geeks By Simon Firth
Silicon Valley sees itself as the new Florence. Then why is it so godawfully ugly? (03/26/98)
Wanderlust Passages By Marie Winn
"Red-Tails in Love": A wildlife adventure in Central Park
(03/26/98)
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WEDNESDAY
MARCH 25, 1998
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Television Helen Hunt bags $1 million per episode from NBC
(03/25/98)
The Oscars:
The Titanic of all egos By Catherine Seipp
Egomaniacal director James Cameron's hot-air display lifts the '98 Academy Awards into the top tier of Oscar history (03/25/98)
Camille does the Oscars By Camille Paglia
Winslet blooms, Madonna clunks, Stone styles: A Paglia's-eye-view of the Academy Awards (03/24/98)
Well, whadja expect? The triumph of art? By Cintra Wilson
Last night's suck-up-to-the-bucks monstrosity proved once again that the Oscars are the Grammies of film (03/24/98)
21st Pictures from an exhibition By Scott Rosenberg
With the Smithsonian's new Web site, getting around is half the fun
(03/25/98)
Books Reviewed by Stephanie
Zacharek
"Dreamer": From the author of the National Book Award-winning "Middle
Passage," a novel about the final two years of Martin Luther King Jr.'s life (03/25/98)
Unzipped Black stallions, blond bombshells By Courtney Weaver
How one woman pisses off her racist father and her liberal friends and enjoys the best sex of her life
(03/25/98)
Mothers Who Think Scout's Dishonor By Andrew O'Hehir
A former member says scouting is a dangerous influence that should be kept away from impressionable young people (03/25/98)
Newsreal By Jeff Stein
Mission impossible: A day in the life of a U.N. arms inspector (03/25/98)
Letters Woody Allen's porn-reading bubeleh and other mangled subtitles
(03/25/98)
Music Reviewed by Paul Festa
Rachmaninov CD: Flawless, dramatic and completely unnecessary
(03/25/98)
Wanderlust
Foie gras dreams By Melinda Bergman Burgener
Foie gras: Tastes great, but you don't want to see how it gets that way
(03/25/98)
The K Chronicles By Keith Knight
How to impress the one you love
(03/25/98)
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TUESDAY
MARCH 24, 1998
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Books Reviewed by Daniel H. Pink
"Simply Speaking": From the author of "What I Saw at the Revolution," a handbook for
people who are terrified about speaking in public (03/24/98)
Story Minute By Carol Lay
Media frenzy (03/24/98)
Letters Readers take issue with Rwanda story (03/24/98)
Media Circus The Oscar for realism goes to ... By Mark Gauvreau Judge
Want to talk about race? See a 30-year-old movie
(03/24/98)
Mothers Who Think Wedding bell blues By Deborah Garrison
In her first collection of poems, the author charts the ambivalent territory of love and work and longing (03/24/98)
Music Reviewed by Frederick Woodruff
Classify Morcheeba under "Neo-pop, country/blues shoegazing with a trip-hop
tap root that aims to please" -- and for the most part does
(03/24/98)
Newsreal Did the Los Angeles Times help fabricate Troopergate? By Murray Waas
Arkansas state trooper Danny Ferguson accuses the co-author of the Los Angeles Times "Troopergate" story of "putting words in my mouth"
(03/24/98)
Wanderlust Boogie or bust By Dawn MacKeen
Hosting spring break is a deal with the devil (03/24/98)
21st Please, Mr. Postman? By Andrew Leonard
Netscape's and Microsoft's software just don't get along -- and God help anyone who tries to get them to make up and be nice (03/24/98)
Television Fox raises "Titanic" -- again; new "NYPD Blue" (03/24/98)
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MONDAY
MARCH 23, 1998
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Books Reviewed by Peter Kurth
Pandora: New tales of the vampires
In the author's latest dark tale, a Roman noblewoman (and vampire)
wanders the earth in search of blood and the meaning of life (03/23/98)
Right On! By David Horowitz
David Brock's new liberal friends
(03/23/98)
This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
Why the public doesn't care about Monicagate (03/23/98)
Music Reviewed by Geoff Edgers
The Miles Davis Quintet: The reissue market has become jazz music's saving grace, but no player,
dead or alive, has been given a star turn like Miles Davis (03/23/98)
21st The 21st Challenge No. 7 By Charlie Varon and Jim Rosenau
Bright ideas for techno-schools (03/23/98)
Television I'd like to thank the Academy for this honor ... (03/23/98)
Letters Where do I go to join the anti-Clinton conspiracy? (03/23/98)
Newsreal By Jonathan Broder and Murray Waas
Portrait of a bag man: Arkansas bait shop owner's anti-Clinton operation
(03/23/98)
Mothers Who Think The Spock touch By Dwight Garner
The late good Dr. Spock, "political Rip van Winkle" (03/23/98)
Media Circus Why do movie subtitles stink? By Cynthia Joyce
The man who rewrote "Primary Colors" en español reveals the sad truth about the words at the bottom of the screen (03/23/98)
Wanderlust
Insider's guide to Amsterdam By David Downie
The best places to eat, stay and play (03/23/98)
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WEEKEND
MARCH 20-22, 1998
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Books Reviewed by David Adox
A series of essays -- some fond, some not -- about the legendary
and controversial gay activist and playwright Larry Kramer (03/20/98)
Entertainment Salon's weekly guide to movies and television
Primary Colors Reviewed by Charles Taylor
Mike Nichols' film of Joe Klein's satire is the perfect political movie for today -- empty and cynical
(03/20/98)
Wild Things Reviewed by Michelle Goldberg
Neve Campbell stars in this sultry, trashy -- and devious -- Florida thriller
(03/20/98)
Music Reviewed by Charles Taylor
Sarge's "The Glass Intact" offers the exhilaration of hearing a young band
find their voice and the satisfaction of feeling you're being talked
to honestly, directly, as an adult, free to join the conversation (03/20/98)
21st Mutiny on the Net By Andrew Leonard
Music pirates cross swords with the recording industry (03/20/98)
Television Monty Python reunion; Andre Braugher vs. Alfre Woodard (03/20/98)
Letters "Scandalmania" in the "deeply corrupt" mainstream media (03/20/98)
Newsreal Still getting away with murder By Vivienne Walt
The killing fields of Rwanda are in full swing once more, and there
doesn't seem to be much the international community can do about it (03/20/98)
Mothers Who Think By Sara Nelson
"As Good As It Gets" is just one more pathetic male rescue fantasy
(03/20/98)
Sound Salvation Fan-fare By Sarah Vowell
Al Franken
and Judas Priest get by with a little help from their fans
(03/20/98)
Media Circus"And I'd like to thank -- Rod Lurie!" By Catherine Seipp
Who is Rod Lurie, and why is he being incessantly thanked on Oscar night?
(03/20/98)
Wanderlust Festival time in Kathmandu By Jeff Greenwald
Spring has come to Nepal -- and with it prayers, pickpockets and penis saddhus.
(03/20/98)
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THURSDAY
MARCH 19, 1998
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Television The wrath of Puddy: New "Seinfeld" (03/19/98)
Today in Mothers Who Think:
The Willey of our discontent By Katie Roiphe
American women are as weary of the sexual policing of the '90s
as they are skeptical of the president's latest accuser
(03/19/98)
Does President Clinton feel women's pain -- or cause it? By Lori Leibovich
Feminist author Barbara Ehrenreich lashes out at a White House workplace that seems organized around the president's "problem"
(03/19/98)
Books Reviewed by Michelle Goldberg
"Hungry": Short stories about young women and their appetites -- for sex, for
food, for attention, for love (03/19/98)
Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling
Super Fun-Pak comix!
(03/19/98)
Letters Why is the press only telling one side of the story? (03/19/98)
Media Circus Let my people go -- to the movies By Joyce Millman
A new cable documentary profiles the Jewish immigrants who founded Hollywood, but lost their cultural identity
(03/19/98)
Music By Cynthia Joyce
Mikal Gilmore, author of "Night Beat: A Shadow History of Rock & Roll"
talks to Salon about Dylan, death and how life changed his rock 'n' roll
(03/19/98)
Newsreal Hillary Clinton was right By Andrew
Ross
There IS a right-wing conspiracy to bring down the president (03/19/98)
21st Let's Get This Straight By Scott Rosenberg
As Slate goes, so goes ... Slate (03/19/98)
Wanderlust The last of the great white hunters By Don Meredith
Bunny Allen's Africa tales, from pouncing leopards to Ava Gardner
(03/19/98)
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WEDNESDAY
MARCH 18, 1998
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Television NBC's new game: Find "NewsRadio"!
(03/18/98)
21st The bleeding edge By Jenn Shreve
When it comes to creative Web marketing, tampon manufacturers lead the way
(03/18/98)
Books Reviewed by Scott McLemee
"Errata: An Examined Life": A collection of essays and bitter intellectual memoirs by the
brilliant New Yorker critic who barely escaped the Holocaust (03/18/98)
Unzipped Melon cholia By Courtney Weaver
Marianne decries the mammary mania of males
(03/18/98)
Media Circus Under the Covers By James Poniewozik
ESPN: The Magazine kicks sand in the swimsuit issue's face (03/18/98)
Mothers Who Think Second Thoughts By Sallie Tisdale
A separate peace: For years, I longed
to love my father and be loved by him in return. But I don't, and am not (03/18/98)
Today in Newsreal:
Slick Willey By Bruce Shapiro
Before you cry too many tears for Kathleen Willey, consider the unfortunate brother and sister she defrauded
(03/18/98)
The ties that bind By Murray Waas and Jonathan Broder
The lawyer who contributed $50,000 to Paula Jones' legal fund also served as counsel for Richard Mellon Scaife's anti-Clinton Arkansas Project
(03/18/98)
Letters Bugliosi's flawed argument; Salon's "60 Minutes"-bashing bashed
(03/18/98)
Music Reviewed by John Milward
"Redboy": Robbie Robertson goes Native
(03/18/98)
Wanderlust
Mr. Lincoln's neighborhood By Jan Morris
Discovering a ghostly genius in Springfield
(03/18/98)
The K Chronicles By Keith Knight
Make rollercoasters more morbid!
(03/18/98)
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TUESDAY
MARCH 17, 1998
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Television The British Nanny talks; Al Franken sitcom debut
(03/17/98)
Salon's St. Patrick's Day Feature:
The Salon Interview Gabriel Byrne By Richard Covington
From missionary to modern Heathcliff: Actor Gabriel Byrne talks about his life in a seminary and his rise to idiosyncratic stardom
(03/17/98)
The joys of being Irish By Bob Callahan
Forget about leprechauns and green beer. The real story of the Irish in America is in the way all of us talk and laugh
(03/17/98)
The new Dublin By David Moore
Dublin: Cappuccinos, computers and quaffing with stars
(03/17/98)
Celtic kitsch
By Andrew O'Hehir
Compared to the mystic maunderings of the new Irish spirituality
movement, even a drunk crooning "Danny Boy" sounds good
(03/17/98)
21st eMate never had a chance By Dylan Tweney
Why did Apple consign a kooky little portable computer to an early death?
(03/17/98)
Books Reviewed by Stephanie Zacharek
"Girl in Landscape": From the author of "As She Climbed Across the Table," an effecting
tale exploring the psyche of a teenage girl in a very strange land (03/17/98)
Ask Camille By Camille Paglia
Giving homosexuality a bad name: Gay activists, keep your agenda out of high schools (03/17/98)
Letters The truth about Mrs. Hemingway (03/17/98)
Mothers who Think
A feel for a good story By Carol Lloyd
Thank God we've got those notorious womanizers at "60 Minutes" making
it safe for women like Kathleen Willey to speak up about sexual harassment (03/17/98)
Media Circus Old age and treachery defeat youth and beauty, again By Liesl Schillinger
How Leonardo's Oscar was stolen by senile old sea-lions protecting their unhappy harems
(03/17/98)
Today in Newsreal:
The road to Hale By Jonathan Broder and Murray Waas
Key Whitewater witness David
Hale received secret cash payments from anti-Clinton billionaire Richard
Mellon Scaife
(03/17/98)
Bugliosi the bomb thrower By Lori Leibovich
Vincent Bugliosi: Thanks, Supreme Court, for your Solomon-like Paula Jones ruling
(03/17/98)
Music Reviewed by Keith Moerer
There are times when Steve Poltz's voice is so earnest and his acoustic
guitar so soft, you'd swear James Taylor could left-hook him to a pulp
(03/17/98)
Story Minute By Carol Lay
No future
(03/17/98)
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MONDAY
MARCH 16, 1998
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Television Ally McBeal meets her match; CBS's fall pilots
(03/13/98)
21st Let's Get This Straight By Scott Rosenberg
R.I.P., Word -- but don't get out your handkerchiefs for "content" (03/16/98)
Books Reviewed by Laura Green
"One Nation, After All": A sociology professor argues, after extensive polling, that
Americans are nicer and have more in common than we'd ever imagined (03/16/98)
Mothers Who Think Labia envy By Louisa Kamps
Troubled by the appearance of your genitalia? Call Dr. Alter
(03/16/98)
Media Circus ¿Cómo se dice "DOH"? By Sam Quinones
"The Simpsons" has changed the way Mexicans see the U.S.
(03/16/98)
Letters Don't compare Sgt. Maj. McKinney to Clinton (03/16/98)
Music Reviewed by Mark Athitakis
The famous and not-so-famous rock and folk musicians who try their hand at
the Seeger catalogue are talented, talented, so talented, they
mostly wind up subverting the lovely simplicity that is Seeger's trademark
(03/16/98)
Newsreal Clinton's ghost By Gene Lyons
Jim McDougal's quest for revenge finally killed him, but not before embroiling the country in the six-year torture known as Whitewater (03/16/98)
Television Dawson's crock By Joyce Millman
Funded by deep-pocket publicity, the puerile "Dawson's Creek" has tricked some TV critics into treating it like a hit. But Joyce Millman knows better
(03/16/98)
Wanderlust The elf of Sligo By C.J. Sullivan
An Irish-American learns about fairies, giants, queens and Yeats on a trip to Ireland
(03/16/98)
This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
The return of Anagram Man!
(03/16/98)
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FRIDAY
MARCH 13, 1998
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Television New "Larry Sanders"; Captain Picard meets Captain Ahab
(03/13/98)
21st The Minor league By Tom McNichol
Can Halsey Minor's "user-driven" publishing empire, CNET, make him the Internet's Ted Turner? (03/13/98)
Books Reviewed by David L. Ulin
"The Blonde on the Streetcorner": This reissued 1954 novel, from a lost master of hard-boiled fiction, is about an aspiring songwriter on Philadelphia's meanest streets (03/13/98)
Mothers Who Think Leap of faith By Jennifer New
Getting to the Promised Land with my mother-in-law
(03/13/98)
Newsreal Rethinking Rodney King
By Lori Leibovich
A new book suggests that the beating that shook America may not have been as black-and-white a case as it appeared
(03/13/98)
Media Circus This year's girl
By D.T. Max
She's hot! She's now! She's You! She's Wow! She's a brainless adolescent pumped up to iconic status for your glossy magazine reading pleasure!
(03/13/98)
Sexpert Opinion By Susie Bright
A shameless hussy ballbuster speaks on feminism and the
Clinton scandals (03/13/98)
Letters Kudos for Salon's investigative reporting (03/13/98)
Salon Recommends Our critics pick the best in music, movies and books (03/13/98)
Music Reviewed by Michelle Goldberg
Lately, acid-jazz has gotten a bad rap as the muzak of the techno world,
and with two exceptions, the songs on "Sound Museum" do nothing to
dispel that idea
(03/13/98)
Entertainment Salon's weekly guide to movies and television
Man with guts By Michael Snyder
An interview with filmmaker John Sayles, director of the Spanish-language film "Men With Guns"
(03/13/98)
Love and Death on Long Island Reviewed by Charles Taylor
Long Island idol: A snobby novelist falls for a teen heartthrob in this vamp on Thomas Mann's "Death in Venice"
(03/13/98)
The Man in the Iron Mask Reviewed by Stephanie
Zacharek
Leonardo DiCaprio is king of the beasts in this loutish swashbuckler
(03/13/98)
Wanderlust Mondo Weirdo
The case of the permutating toilet: Whatever you do, don't press the blue button!
(03/13/98)
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THURSDAY
MARCH 12, 1998
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Television March Madness for you, Festivus for the rest of us (03/12/98)
Mothers Who Think The high priestess of free love By Suzette Lalime
Victoria Woodhull, prostitute and presidential candidate
(03/12/98)
Books Reviewed by Peter Kurth
"Jackie After Jack": A dishy, and not particularly insightful, portrait of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis in the years shortly after John F. Kennedy's death (03/12/98)
Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling
Bob Quarterly
(03/12/98)
Letters In defense of Sally Quinn (03/12/98)
Media Circus Martha's quest By Kevin Kerrane
With compassion and guts, pioneering reporter Martha Gellhorn revealed the real face of war
(03/12/98)
Music Reviewed by Rosalind Cummings-Yeates
Buju Banton: Rudebwoy Buju Banton reaches new "Inna Heights"
(03/12/98)
Today in Newsreal
Show us the money! By Jonathan Broder and Murray Waas
Paula Jones' patron accuses her legal fund of defrauding the public (03/12/98)
Paula Jones' Mysterious Benefactor By Jonathan Broder and Murray Waas
Who's behind a secret $50,000 donation to the legal fund of Clinton's accuser?
(03/12/98)
21st Fending off big brother By Andrew Leonard
Cryptography fans take on the surveillance state in "Privacy on the Line" (03/12/98)
Wanderlust Auckland unplugged By Cameron Williamson
Life in a city without electricity
(03/12/98)
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WEDNESDAY
MARCH 11, 1998
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Television Five guys, three girls and a pizza place
(03/11/98)
21st Living by The Book By Julie Caniglia
Inside the cult of the Franklin Planner
(03/11/98)
Books Reviewed by Christine Muhlke
"Singing in the Comeback Choir": A intelligent, heartfelt and snappily-written tale about a poor girl from Philadelphia who becomes a talk show producer in L.A. (03/11/98)
Unzipped Commitaphobe's comeuppance By Courtney Weaver
An ingrown hair and an open relationship leave the stubbornly uncommitted Claudia wondering about the world of happy loving couples
(03/11/98)
Media Circus All Karen, all the time By Christopher Hawthorne
Banking on her notoriety, performance artist Karen Finley is now selling her thoughts and confessionals on a pay-per-minute line: 1-900-ALL-KAREN (03/11/98)
Mothers Who Think Wild Things By Leora Tanenbaum
Fat chance: A teen-book author talks about fat girls, binge-and-barf clubs and why well-meaning mothers often make things worse
(03/11/98)
Newsreal The Falwell connection By Murray Waas
How the Rev. Jerry Falwell and a California political organization helped finance and orchestrate an extensive anti-Clinton propaganda campaign
(03/11/98)
Letters Policeman charges Starr with manufacturing evidence
(03/11/98)
Music Reviewed by Natasha Stovall
Delirious pop lovefest by Pumpkin James Iha
(03/11/98)
Wanderlust
A romp in Rome By Fiona Morgan
An American feminist is liberated by Italian men
(03/11/98)
The K Chronicles By Keith Knight
A Titanic Confession
(03/11/98)
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TUESDAY
MARCH 10, 1998
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Television Sharon Stone makes a man out of Leonardo DiCaprio
(03/10/98)
21st PalmPilot reading By Robert Rossney
Is that little black box just "fashion technology" -- or the future face of computing?
(03/10/98)
Books Reviewed by Maryanne Vollers
"Confederates in the Attic": The author, a former foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, explores the landmarks -- and the outer limits -- of the Southern mind (03/10/98)
The Awful Truth By Cintra Wilson
Of cock rock kings and other dinosaurs: Where have you gone, Mick and Iggy Pop? A nation turns its sexless eyes to you
(03/10/98)
Letters Time for Starr to pack it in (03/10/98)
Mothers who Think
Hotflash By Ros Davidson
Sound and sexuality: Is lesbianism physiological? (03/10/98)
Media Circus The crying over Lot 49 of Thomas Pynchon's letters By Dwight Garner
By making her collection of the reclusive author's correspondence public, an agent has become the Linda Tripp of the literary world
(03/10/98)
Newsreal Secret agent man By David Corn
When Vernon Jordan speaks, people listen. But who is he talking for?
(03/10/98)
Music Reviewed by Dawn Eden
The Bobby Fuller Four: The mysterious death of Bobby "I Fought the Law" Fuller
(03/10/98)
Story Minute By Carol Lay
Hitting bottom
(03/10/98)
Wanderlust "Save me, wild qahba!"
By Jeffrey Tayler
In a hashish den with the fallen women of Marrakech
(03/10/98)
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MONDAY
MARCH 9, 1998
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Television Tracey Ullman on "McBeal"; Shatner on a new "Biography" (03/09/98)
21st Piracy on the Web seas By Andrew Leonard
Will Slate be able to fend off the Web's password pirates? (03/09/98)
Right On! By David Horowitz
It's "only sex"? Tell that to Cmdr. Stumpf
(03/09/98)
Today in Mothers Who Think:
Vanity, thy name is pukestain
By Carol Snow
Lessons of a puking child
(03/09/98)
Queen of the betrayed
Announcing the Drama Queen winners!
(03/09/98)
Newsreal Tag team
By Loren Jenkins
The Great Satan and the great sponsor of international terrorism are
teaming up to take on the great dictator
(03/09/98)
Media Circus The (not so) mighty Quinn By Harry Jaffe
Washington society maven Sally Quinn has been on a mean-spirited crusade against the Clintons ever since they refused to kiss her ring (03/09/98)
The Salon Interview: Nadime Gordimer By Dwight Garner
The conscience of South Africa talks about her country's new racial order (03/09/98)
Books Reviewed by Dan Cryer
"Cavedwellers": From the author of "Bastard Out of Carolina," a novel about a rock singer who returns to her Bible Belt hometown
(03/09/98)
Letters Grossed out by Egg Donors cover
(03/09/98)
Music Reviewed by Meredith Ochs
With "The Northeast Kingdom," Cheri Knight reveals the inner life of a
country woman weened on rock 'n' roll (03/09/98)
Wanderlust Beware the supple fingers of Saigon By Karl Vetas
Street urchins are thriving as pickpockets in Vietnam's bustling city -- but the children are victims, too (03/09/98)
This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
War with Iraq is meathead diplomacy (03/09/98)
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FRIDAY
MARCH 6, 1998
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Television Doh! Lisa Simpson gets stupid; the Stones on PBS (03/06/98)
21st The 21st Challenge No. 6 By Charlie Varon and Jim Rosenau
Results of our find-and-replace goofs contest (03/06/98)
Books Reviewed by Peter Kurth
"Blue Bossa": A fine, feeling first novel, by the editor of the Hungry Mind Review, about a down-on-his-luck jazz trumpeter in San Francisco (03/06/98)
Today in Mothers Who Think:
Time for one thing By the Salon staff
A guide to fast-forwarding to the most sensuous moments on film
(03/06/98)
Confessions of a video-renting junkie By Kate Moses
The first step to recovery is admitting that you really don't watch all
those movies you rent
(03/06/98)
Newsreal Now what?
By Jonathan Broder
Is time running out for Kenneth Starr?
(03/06/98)
Media Circus Hollywood Land
By Catherine Seipp
And the loser is ... The day before the Oscars, Hollywood's Golden Raspberry Awards honor the worst movies of the year
(03/06/98)
Sound Salvation By Sarah Vowell
Marilyn Hanson: When the antichrist arrives, he won't be a goth rocker -- he'll be a three-headed blond (03/06/98)
Letters Am I the last feminist on earth? (03/06/98)
Salon Recommends Our critics pick the best in music, movies and books (03/06/98)
Music Reviewed by Gina Arnold
Madonna, despite all her innovations and subversions and gender
groundbreaking, is nothing more than a slightly rattled femme fatale, the
kind of woman who dresses too young for her age
(03/06/98)
Entertainment Salon's weekly guide to movies and television
The Big Lebowski Reviewed by Andrew O'Hehir
Everyman must get stoned: The Coen brothers break out of the irony ghetto in their warm-hearted --
and hilarious -- "The Big Lebowski"
(03/06/98)
The Gingerbread Man Reviewed by Charles Taylor
Midnight in the Garden of Altman and Grisham: Robert Altman goes Southern Gothic with his potent new thriller
"The Gingerbread Man," based on the John Grisham screenplay
(03/06/98)
Twilight Reviewed by Charles Taylor
Thespian pleasures: Robert Benton's modest noir about aging and death makes a safe space for great acting
(03/06/98)
Wanderlust Islands only a mother could love By Simon Winchester
The Kuriles are one of the planet's more heartbreaking pawns -- ceded to Russia, claimed by Japan, nurtured by none
(03/06/98)
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THURSDAY
MARCH 5, 1998
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Television What did Adam Sandler do before "The Wedding Singer"? (03/05/98)
Mothers Who Think The price of eggs in America By Cynthia
Joyce
The growing controversy over egg donorship poses the tricky
question: Which comes first, the donor or the egg?
(03/05/98)
Books Reviewed by Jonathan Miles
"Unafraid of the Dark": A memoir by a former New York Times Book Review editor about her poor upbringing on Chicago's South Side (03/05/98)
Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling
(03/05/98)
Letters Monica knew what she was doing (03/05/98)
Media Circus A bad week for the First Amendment By Eric Alterman
Can a reporter write a book about a subject he covers? ABC News, which fired veteran correspondent Robert Zelnick, apparently doesn't think so
(03/05/98)
Music Reviewed by Keith Moerer
In contrast to the film, where stars pretend to be "characters," "The Big
Lebowski" soundtrack is full of genuine oddballs and geeks
(03/05/98)
Newsreal Pol Pot sends his regrets By Andrew Ross
Salon reports on the movers and shakers who couldn't attend Time's gala birthday party
(03/05/98)
21st Let's Get This Straight By Scott Rosenberg
All Gates, all the time -- there's no escaping Bill (03/05/98)
Wanderlust Mondo Weirdo
My worst travel experience: Accident in the Egyptian desert
(03/05/98)
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WEDNESDAY
MARCH 4, 1998
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Television Garth does Dublin; Anne Heche does "Ellen"
(03/04/98)
21st To Be or not to Be By Greg Lindsay
The new high-end operating
system has a cult -- but can it find a market?
(03/04/98)
Today in Books:
Poetry Reviewed by Albert Mobilio
Reviews of four recent -- and notable -- collections of poetry, from masters such as James Tate and Margaret Atwood as well as newcomers such as Joshua Clover (03/04/98)
Terrible swift sword Reviewed by David Bowman
David Bowman reviews "Cloudsplitter," Russell Banks' effort at the Great American Novel, an ambitious resurrection of the life and times of anti-slavery crusader John Brown (03/04/98)
Unzipped Just like a woman By Courtney Weaver
The man-eating Anna is accused of being a man in sheep's clothing, as the saga of Kath and Nigel is told from a different perspective
(03/04/98)
Media Circus Under the Covers By James Poniewozik
Money magazines, reflecting our schizoid attitudes toward loot, wobble between safe 'n' sober advice and get-rich-quick fantasies (03/04/98)
Mothers Who Think Second thoughts By Sallie Tisdale
Totally wasted: High school doesn't need to be fixed; it needs to be reinvented
(03/04/98)
Newsreal Hillary Clinton is a traitor By Neera Sohoni
In the Third World, where she has traveled widely, Hillary
Rodham Clinton has become something of an icon of feminism. This makes her
"stand by your man" response to allegations that her husband has cheated on
her particularly distressing
(03/04/98)
Letters Gayl Jones tragedy -- so what?
(03/04/98)
Music Reviewed by Randall Roberts
The clairvoyant madness of The Handsome Family
(03/04/98)
Wanderlust
Lust in the sand By Tim Barrett
She was delectable, but was she willing?
(03/04/98)
The K Chronicles By Keith Knight
How my cousins let me down
(03/04/98)
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TUESDAY
MARCH 3, 1998
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Television "Dawson" does "The Breakfast Club"; Lilith returns
(03/03/98)
21st Babel off By David Futrelle
AltaVista's Translation Assistant turns the language barrier into a fun house mirror
(03/03/98)
Books Reviewed by Scott McLemee
"Those Dirty Rotten Taxes": The author, an independent scholar, advances the argument that taxes are the root cause of much of the evil in the world (03/03/98)
Ask Camille By Camille Paglia
The glory of female curvature: Camille Paglia muses about Latin culture's fondness for prominent buttocks, the grittiness of women's ice hockey and the weepiness of women's figure skating (03/03/98)
Letters Hating Courtney; Salon's Starr coverage, pro and con
(03/03/98)
Today in Mothers who Think:
Sexual harassment law: Relax and try to enjoy it
By Laura Green
Despite its occasional excesses, sexual harassment law has improved the workplace (03/03/98)
The silence is deafening By Jonathan Broder
Anne Northup asks why her Democratic sisters are letting President Clinton off the hook (03/03/98)
Media Circus Memoirs of a shy pornographer By Molly Weatherfield
What happens to a writer of erotica when a reader takes her fantasies home with him?
(03/03/98)
Newsreal Size isn't everything By David Corn
With poll numbers like President Clinton's, you'd think he could do
something bold and important. Then why doesn't he?
(03/03/98)
Music Reviewed by Michelle Goldberg
Just file Swervedriver's new album, "99th Dream," under "psychedelic
alternative" -- and pull it out to use in Volkswagen commercials
(03/03/98)
Story Minute By Carol Lay
The Matchmaker
(03/03/98)
Wanderlust Oscar night in Angkor Wat
By Jeff Greenwald
The monstrous and the magical in Cambodia
(03/03/98)
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MONDAY
MARCH 2, 1998
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Television Drudge strikes gold -- inks deal with Fox News (03/02/98)
21st:
A glitch in time By Scott Rosenberg
"Time Bomb 2000" author Edward Yourdon talks about just how bad the millennial computer
crisis is going to be (03/02/98)
"Myst" partnership is riven By Karlin Lillington
Rand and Robyn Miller, the brothers who created the world's
most popular computer games, go their separate ways (03/02/98)
Remember Halabja By Christopher Hitchens
If the U.S. really is concerned about Iraq's "Weapons of mass destruction," it has a funny way of showing it
(03/02/98)
Mothers Who Think Giving the experts the Big Slammu By Beth Levine
No rest for the expert weary
(03/02/98)
Newsreal Turkish delight By Jonathan Broder
The Clinton administration says a huge arms-for-human-rights deal is important for Turkey's stability, but opponents say it's arming the torturers
(03/02/98)
Media Circus How to succeed in everything by dropping out of Harvard By Shoshana Berger
Matt Damon is the latest in the long line of Crimson quitters to make it big
(03/02/98)
Books Reviewed by Stephanie Zacharek
"The Half-life of Happiness": Irritating chitchat, tedious analysis mar otherwise mediocre novel
(03/02/98)
Letters Forget the right wing -- it's a GOP plot
(03/02/98)
Music Strange angel: An interview with Kristin Hersch By David Bowman
Former Throwing Muses singer Kristin Hersh talks about the desert, her music
and the voices in her head (03/02/98)
Wanderlust Where the hula goddess lives By James D. Houston
The sources of Hawaii's sensual dance still sway in a sacred Kauai site (03/02/98)
This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
Extremely smart bombs (03/02/98)
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