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FRIDAY
May 29, 1998
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Today in Entertainment:
"Lolita" Reviewed by Charles Taylor
Nymphet mania: Lyne's unprovocative film and America's sexual hysteria (05/29/98)
When Garry met Larry By Joyce Millman
"The Larry Sanders Show" signs off after six seasons, but creator
Shandling and his alter ego remain inseparable (05/29/98)
Phil Hartman, 1948 - 1998 By Joyce Millman
With Phil Hartman's shocking death, we lose one of TV's most prolific and ubiquitous comedians
(05/29/98)
Television Mickey Rourke is back; Bill Paxton stars in new Vietnam drama
(05/29/98)
Today in 21st
Return of the hex-crazed wargamers
By Andrew Leonard
Is the Net breathing new life into an endangered hobby -- or just postponing
the inevitable?
21st Challenge No. 9 Results By Charlie Varon and Jim Rosenau
One percent -- of software -- for the arts
Books Reviewed by Rob Walker
"Now It's Time to Say Goodbye": A sensational, even preposterous novel about two urban gay men who
move to a racially divided, violence-haunted Kansas town (05/29/98)
Letters Guns, pro and con; another Godzilla trademark horror story
(05/29/98)
Media Circus Feasting on Frank
By Sara Nelson
Ol' Blue Eyes was barely cold when publishers and magazine editors revved up their well-oiled posthumous profits machine.
(05/29/98)
Mothers Who Think Infant revolution By Dawn MacKeen
The children who are giving Nike a dressing down
(05/29/98)
Money Finding the g(ive) spot
By Kevin Kelleher
How charities are using Madison Avenue marketing techniques to tap into people's psychology and have them give money
(05/29/98)
Today in Newsreal:
Special Report
By Murray Waas
Clinton administration failed to monitor China's use of missile-technology exports (05/29/98)
New Yorker magazine subpoena quashed
Federal judge halts conservative lawyer's effort to depose journalist Jane Mayer (05/29/98)
Salon Recommends Salon's critics pick the best in books, music, movies, TV
and games (05/29/98)
Wanderlust Letter from Jakarta: Part 2 By Jeff Pulice
Expats drink, rumors run amok, Habibie has an amazing week (05/29/98)
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THURSDAY
May 28, 1998
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Today in 21st:
No future in Tomorrowland
By Janelle Brown
Instead of predicting future technologies, Disney's updated playground opts for the predictable (05/28/98)
Interstellar fireworks
Reviewed by Andrew Leonard
When a science-fiction game is as absorbing as "Starcraft," who needs the movie version? (05/28/98)
Books Reviewed by Caroline Knapp
"The Treatment": A lively and intelligent novel about a 32-year-old man -- he's a
passive, mildly depressed "urban anomic" -- and his dominating therapist
Today in Entertainment:
The Last Days of Disco Reviewed by Laura Miller
Play That Funky Music, Whit Boy: Whit Stillman flashes back to "The Last Days of Disco" (05/28/98)
Celebrated Whit By Laura Miller
Salon interviews "Last Days of Disco" director Whit Stillman (05/28/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
Prince Albert and Jason Priestly at the World Music Awards
(05/28/98)
Media Circus By Christopher Hitchens
The rise and fall of Paul "Spanker" Johnson: The right-wing historian's longtime mistress deals him the unkindest whack of all
Mothers Who Think Second Thoughts By Sallie Tisdale
No turning back: At what point do you need to tell your child he can't come home again?
(05/28/98)
Letters A stink about Tracy Quan's defense of mink
(05/28/98)
Newsreal Vincent Foster is still with us
By Lori Leibovich
Vincent Foster's suicide is the Rosetta Stone of the right-wing conspiracy industry
(05/28/98)
Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling
The Adventures of Plucky Panda
(05/28/98)
Wanderlust Who stole Tomorrowland's soul? By Janelle Brown
Disneyland's revamped Tomorrowland presents fresh façade and a few thrills -- but where's the old magic? (05/28/98)
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WEDNESDAY
MAY 27, 1998
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Today in 21st:
Let's Get This Straight By Scott Rosenberg
Free the Windows source code? Pandemonium ensues as readers talk back (05/27/98)
One fine "Day"? By Scott Rosenberg
When Intel chips in for a coffee-table book celebration of the microprocessor, the future looks bright (05/27/98)
Today in Books:
Punch drunk By
Vivian Gornick
Norman Mailer's collected essays reveal the sad legacy of a writer who couldn't stop fighting (05/27/98)
The Overspent American Reviewed by
Dante Ramos
A Harvard economist blames technology and advertising for a "new consumerism" that's plunging many Americans into debt (05/27/98)
Today in Entertainment:
Sharps and Flats
Reviews of the Connells, Pete Seeger and Sleater-Kinney spinoff Quasi
(05/27/98)
Jeff Buckley By David Bowman
A review of the posthumously released, Tom Verlaine-produced "Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk"
(05/27/98)
Television "Ellen": The infamous chicken-suit episode
(05/27/98)
Unzipped When your mother's the "other woman" By
Courtney Weaver
It's easy to disapprove of women who date married men, but what about when it's your own dear mother? (05/27/98)
Mothers Who Think
My son, the cross-dresser By Lisen Stromberg
Why are tomboys cute but "janegirls" weird? (05/27/98)
Media Return of the journalist supervillains! By James Poniewozik
The moral posturing that surrounds media scandal obscures regular, run-of-the-mill journalistic sleaze (05/27/98)
Newsreal First, we kill all the 11-year-olds By Robin Templeton
After Springfield: Don't punish all kids for the mad acts of a few killers (05/27/98)
Letters A Pakistani responds to an Indian's
defense of the bomb
(05/27/98)
Wanderlust Hitchhiking Vietnam By Karin Muller
Renting a horse -- and other examples of how tourism is changing Vietnam
(05/27/98)
The K Chronicles By
Keith Knight
The real truth about guns
(05/27/98)
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TUESDAY
May 26, 1998
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21st Starwave in Disneyland By
Janelle Brown
A once-proud Web-content firm mutates from an editorial powerhouse to a technology backbone -- because that's what its new owner needs (05/26/98)
Pretty in mink By Tracy Quan
Working girls and the sexual politics of fur (05/26/98)
Books Reviewed by Joyce Hackett
"I Know This Much Is True": By the author of "She's Come Undone," a sprawling novel about twin
brothers, and being a repressed (and angry) white American male (05/26/98)
Ask Camille By Camille
Paglia
America's New Age mania: Let the healing end!
(05/26/98)
Today in Entertainment:
Home Movies By
Charles Taylor
Depp impact: A former teen idol has become Hollywood's most
versatile and moving actor (05/26/98)
Television Double "Buffy"; Fox's fall schedule
(05/26/98)
Letters How can Clinton fight a "virtual" conspiracy? (05/26/98)
Mother's Who Think
Back to my future By Lori Leibovich
Dancing cheek to cheek with your high school self (05/26/98)
Newsreal The "conservative Ralph Nader" By
Joshua Micah Marshall
A look at the unorthodox views of a self-described "conservative Ralph Nader" who is suing the White House over Filegate and believes that former Commerce Secretary Ron Brown did not die accidentally (05/26/98)
Comics today:
This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
Godzilla is my friend (05/26/98)
Story Minute By Carol Lay
The laziest woman (05/26/98)
Wanderlust
Getting into Chechnya By Thomas Goltz
A journalist's heart-stopping adventure slipping by Russian border
guards (05/26/98)
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FRIDAY
May 22, 1998
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Today in Entertainment:
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Reviewed by Cintra Wilson
Viva Las Vegas: Terry Gilliam's "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" captures the crazy soul of Hunter Thompson's twisted masterpiece (05/22/98)
The Opposite of Sex Reviewed by Cynthia Joyce
Snippy white female: Christina Ricci's bratty narration makes -- and breaks -- "The Opposite of Sex" (05/22/98)
Sex and the single songwriter By Jennie Yabroff
An interview with Lyle Lovett (05/22/98)
Television Disco fever! Two documentaries remember Studio 54
(05/22/98)
21st The Transmeta enigma By Andrew Leonard
At a tantalizingly elusive Silicon Valley start-up, secrecy spawns hopes of revolution and a raft of conspiracy theories (05/22/98)
Books Reviewed by David
Bowman
"Remembering Mr. Shawn's New Yorker": A memoir about the editing genius -- and the idiosyncrasies -- of
famed New Yorker editor William Shawn (05/22/98)
Letters Microsoft vs. Justice: Readers sound off
(05/22/98)
Media Circus The traveling depression road show By Janelle Brown
"Party of Five" cast members and the doctor from Mars try to cheer America up
(05/22/98)
Mothers Who Think Coming clean about her trashy life By Lori Leibovich
In "Other People's Dirt," a housekeeper dishes about her dirty work
(05/22/98)
Money The reluctant capitalist
By Heather Chaplin
What to do with $195 million?: You pay your taxes, maybe buy a small island. Then what?
(05/22/98)
Newsreal The man who would be king
By Jonathan Broder
Indonesia's new leader says he's been given divine gifts and that his name vibrates in the hearts of children. How is that likely to play with the IMF? (05/22/98)
Sexpert Opinion By Susie Bright
Move over, Ken, it's "Bend Over Boyfriend"(05/22/98)
Salon Recommends Salon Recommends: The best of books, music, movies and Web sites (05/22/98)
Wanderlust By Jeff Pulice
Letter from Jakarta: When all hell breaks loose, what's an expat to do?
(05/22/98)
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THURSDAY
May 21, 1998
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Today in 21st:
Customer disservice
By Simon Firth
How Fry's became a totem of Silicon Valley computer retailing by giving tech shoppers a taste of S&M (05/21/98)
Does God have an e-mail address?
Reviewed by Mary Elizabeth Williams
Jennifer Cobb's "Cybergrace" seeks the spiritual dimension of technology but gets mired in the details (05/21/98)
Books Reviewed by Lucy Grealy
"A Monk Swimming": From the brother of Frank ("Angela's Ashes"), himself a noted
raconteur, a memoir of an Irish rogue's life in New York City (05/21/98)
Today in Entertainment:
Godzilla Reviewed by Gary Kamiya,
IQ does matter: "Godzilla" has all the profundity of a Saturday-morning cartoon, but
it will make your kid go to the bathroom five times (05/21/98)
Under the Skin Reviewed by Charles Taylor
Two sisters navigate the shadowy realms of love, loss and sexual danger in Carine Adler's powerful debut film (05/21/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
Fall lineups: CBS, ABC; Beck and the Boss salute Rolling Stone
(05/21/98)
Mothers Who Think Violence or entertainment? By Dwight Garner
A new book on our cultural obsession with violence finds kids' TV and
Quentin Tarantino movies inseparable from the Roman spectacles
(05/21/98)
Letters Internet censorship; "The Reluctant Capitalist"
(05/21/98)
Newsreal Dickering with the devil
By Peter Dale Scott
The U.S. says it wants democratic reform in Indonesia. But what if a new military dictatorship takes over?
(05/21/98)
Tom the Dancing Bug The infinite universe of Bob
(05/21/98)
Wanderlust Mondo Weirdo
Oh, those tropical nights! Readers relate their nocturnal adventures in the wilds of Australia and Indonesia (05/21/98)
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WEDNESDAY
MAY 20, 1998
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21st Tinkerer's paradise By Sara Kelly
At a Pittsburgh invention fair, innovation is alive and well -- and riding motorized suitcases (05/20/98)
Today in Books:
Sentimental journey By Vince Passaro
Cormac McCarthy: Shakespeare of the American West
(05/20/98)
Sneaks Reviewed by Jonathan Miles
"Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea": An account of a nightmarish shipwreck off the Carolina coast --
hundreds of lives, and billions in gold, were lost -- and the efforts to
retrieve the ship's treasure
(05/20/98)
Today in Entertainment:
Sharps and Flats
Music reviews of new releases from Sean
Lennon, Rufus Wainwright, the Mekons, Joe Ely, Dave Matthews and Scrawl
(05/20/98)
Santa Selena By Josh Kun
"Anthology" memorializes the slain Tejano pop star
(05/20/98)
Television Cher salutes Sonny; Julia Roberts monkeys around
(05/20/98)
Unzipped V is for Viagra By Courtney Weaver
Courtney Weaver learns the ABCs of male performance anxiety
(05/20/98)
Today in Mothers Who Think:
Uxorious By Kate Moses
Wives of the world -- you've never heard of this word, and there's a
reason why
(05/20/98)
M is for the many ways she lost it ...
The mother of all drama queens
(05/20/98)
Media Circus The unauthorized Godzilla
By Matthew Flamm
Two writers confront the mighty media giants and discover that size does
matter (05/20/98)
Newsreal Northern Ireland: Who will police the police? By Margaret Spillane
The peace accord has forgotten to address one key issue: The
repressive ways of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (05/20/98)
Letters On Paglia, Horowitz, Gingrich and the Rat Pack
(05/20/98)
Today in Wanderlust:
Passages
By Bill Bryson
A walk in the woods: An almost-encounter with two big animals in the middle of the night
(05/20/98)
A talk with Bill Bryson
By Don George
On writing, hiking and other arduous pleasures
(05/20/98)
The K Chronicles By Keith Knight
The top five signs of getting old
(05/20/98)
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TUESDAY
May 19, 1998
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Today in entertainment:
Home Movies Isn't it romantic? By Charles Taylor
Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn bring a dash of
style to Stanley Donen's caper in Paris (05/19/98)
Television Buffy vs. Angel in season ender; "Frasier," "NYPD Blue,"
"Dawson" finales
(05/19/98)
Today in 21st:
Mr. Gates, meet Mr. Antitrust By Janelle Brown
Three former Justice Department antitrust experts handicap the new Microsoft suit (05/19/98)
Who owns the desktop? By Andrew Leonard
Microsoft and the DOJ battle for control of the user interface (05/19/98)
Let's Get This Straight By Scott Rosenberg
As government lawyers move on Microsoft, what's at stake for the rest of us? (05/19/98)
Sneaks Reviewed by Theo Spencer
"The Unfinished Presidency": An account of Jimmy Carter's manic post-presidential activities --
peace-making, election monitoring, etc. -- from a well-known historian (05/19/98)
Lovers and
Writers By Garrison Keillor
In which Garrison Keillor, who has been around the block and lost that showroom shine, shares his wisdom
(05/19/98)
Letters Salon's movie critics roasted; Poniewozik vs. the Nation (05/19/98)
Mother's Who Think
Drowning in fairness By Liz Gardner
Does holding back valid criticism create more confident children or praise junkies?
(05/19/98)
Newsreal Kenneth Starr's sex appeal By Todd Pitock
The independent counsel may be pursuing truth and justice. But he also may
have an eye for some of the more down-to-earth things in life
(05/19/98)
Story Minute By Carol Lay
A fine mess
(05/19/98)
Wanderlust
Postmark
By Rolf Potts
Student protests bloom: Spring is here -- time to put on the riot gear!
(05/19/98)
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MONDAY
MAY 18, 1998
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21st The Internet strikes back By Howard Wen
Online sleuths piece together the plot of the forthcoming "Star Wars" film -- and post it on the Web (05/18/98)
Today in Entertainment:
Twentieth Century Vox By Sarah Vowell
A farewell to Frank Sinatra -- and to the America he embodied
(05/18/98)
Hoboken hero By Mary Elizabeth Williams
Frank Sinatra ripped out his humble roots when he crossed the Hudson -- but his hometown never forgot him
(05/18/98)
You go, girls By Joyce Millman
Time's up for "Murphy Brown" and "Ellen," but they were once TV's
women of the hour
(05/18/98)
Television Dead but still working:
Ed Sullivan hosts two
specials
(05/18/98)
Right On! By David Horowitz
Newt to the rescue: Now that the speaker is making loud noises, perhaps the White House's high crimes and misdemeanors won't be so easy to cover up
(05/18/98)
Mothers Who Think Where the gals are By Laura Miller
Forget grrrl power: The new feminine mystique is neurotic, self-absorbed and still boy-crazy, according to a current crop of pop-cultural heroines
(05/18/98)
Newsreal The anatomy of a virtual conspiracy
By Peter J. Ognibene
Unable to defeat him at the polls, President Clinton's foes use the press to spread rumors, allegations, speculations and lies (05/18/98)
Books Reviewed by Maryanne Vollers
"Suits Me": A lucid and probing biography of Billy Tipton, a female jazz
musician who spent her life passing as a man
(05/18/98)
Letters Geek love: Readers respond to Ellen Ullman's de-programming
(05/18/98)
This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
Sparky goes to the White House Correspondents' Dinner
(05/18/98)
Wanderlust
The tomb of the unknown soldier By Roxanne Nelson
A traveler encounters a little-visited military cemetery -- and a poignant mourner -- in southern France (05/18/98)
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FRIDAY
May 15, 1998
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Today in Entertainment:
Bulworth Reviewed by Charles Taylor
Righteous wrath: Warren Beatty runs amok as a politician in South Central (05/15/98)
Art amnesia? By Alyssa Katz
Was it rape or was it love? Feminists quarrel with a dreamy French
film about a woman painter's life (05/15/98)
Television Season finales for "X-Files," "Simpsons" and "King of the Hill"
(05/15/98)
Today in 21st:
The 21st Challenge No. 9 By Charlie Varon and Jim Rosenau
One percent -- of software -- for the arts! (05/15/98)
Trashing the flamers By Mike Godwin
An online civil libertarian discovers the proper uses of "censorware" software filters (05/15/98)
Books Reviewed by Beverly Gage
"Civility": From the well-known Yale law professor, an argument that American
society has grown far too surly and impolite (05/15/98)
Mothers Who Think Young, black and too white By Karen Grigsby Bates
Social clubs for black children are making a comeback
among middle-class parents who fear their kids are losing their roots
(05/15/98)
Today in News:
A country amok
By Jonathan Broder
An Indonesia expert says the time for peaceful change is past and that President Suharto can't survive (05/15/98)
"A weapon so powerful, it will destroy the world"
By Sarita Sarvate
The nation of Buddha, the Veddas and Mahatma Gandhi wants to be a nuclear giant (05/15/98)
Money The reluctant capitalist
By Heather Chaplin
From red to green: How the daughter of an anarchist, raised on a diet of tax-the-rich, fell in love with the business pages and can't get enough of those IPOs (05/15/98)
Letters Nation magazine loyalists fire back
(05/15/98)
Salon Recommends Salon Recommends: Our critics pick the best in books, music, movies and
television (05/15/98)
Wanderlust Mondo Weirdo
Tales of Koh Samui: Readers' adventures on Thailand's fabled -- or is it just mislabeled? (05/15/98)
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THURSDAY
May 14, 1998
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Today in 21st:
Let's Get This Straight
By Scott Rosenberg
Hacker heaven,
editors' hell: The New Republic's bogus article reveals a chasm of
cluelessness (05/14/98)
Post no shills
By Scott Rosenberg
With its new Web cartoon,
"Super Postal Workers," has the USPS lost its mind? (05/14/98)
Books Reviewed by Laura Miller
"Love's Apprentice": An insightful and winning memoir about the author's lifelong
pursuit of the perfect romance -- in spite of her own better judgment (05/14/98)
Today in Entertainment:
The Horse Whisperer Reviewed by Stephanie
Zacharek
The old gray star ain't what he used to be: Gorgeous scenery and gauze-covered lenses can't hide the tired heart (05/14/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
"Seinfeld": The day the must-see died
(05/14/98)
Astral projection, hugging trees and BBQ chicken wings By Alan Kaufman
How a chicken-eating shaman saved the soul of a fallen yuppie
(05/14/98)
Mothers Who Think Second Thoughts By Sallie Tisdale
Death comes for the bishop: Does the murder of a leading Guatemalan human rights activist no
longer qualify as news in the United States?
(05/14/98)
Letters Tom Tomorrow's predecessor speaks out on Oklahoma flap
(05/14/98)
Newsreal Indian roulette By Jonathan Broder
The world's largest democracy goes nuclear, and gambles that it can survive the sanctions coming down on its head
(05/14/98)
Tom the Dancing Bug Rich people are using money to leverage sex!
(05/14/98)
Wanderlust Don't go there By Tim Barrett
Way off the beaten track in Mexico (05/14/98)
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WEDNESDAY
MAY 13, 1998
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Today in 21st:
The dumbing-down of programming By Ellen Ullman
Part Two: Returning to the source. Once knowledge disappears into code, how do we retrieve it? (05/13/98)
When you just can't stop clicking
By Lori Leibovich
"Caught in the Net" offers melodramatic tales from "Internet addicts" (05/13/98)
Today in Books:
The Salon Interview By Dwight Garner
Richard Price talks about getting off drugs, getting out of
Hollywood and his new novel, based on the Susan Smith case
(05/13/98)
Sneaks Reviewed by Daniel Reitz
"An Instance of the Fingerpost": Set in 17th century England, this sprawling and "Rashomon"-like first
novel deconstructs a murder among academics in Oxford
(05/13/98)
Today in Entertainment:
Sharps and Flats
Mini-reviews of Sonic Youth, Tori Amos, Bill Laswell's Miles Davis remixes, The Loud Family and Massive Attack
(05/13/98)
Costello's 21-artist salute By David Handelman
Rhino's new "Songwriting by Elvis Costello" is the cream of the compilation CD crop
(05/13/98)
Television The best of Chris Farley; "Ellen" signs off
(05/13/98)
Unzipped Party in LaLa land By Courtney Weaver
The nice man who wouldn't take no for an answer
(05/13/98)
Mothers Who Think Wild Things By Polly Shulman
Raging hormones: Honest, respectful books that tell kids what they really want
to know about sex
(05/13/98)
Media Circus No irony please -- we're leftists
By James Poniewozik
The American left's disdain for irony and popular appeal ensures its irrelevance (05/13/98)
Newsreal A Starr cannot be extinguished By David Everett
Salon uncovers a letter written by the independent counsel detailing the progress of his investigation into 93-year-old Hillary Clinton (05/13/98)
Letters Another side of Arianna; why Divx makes sense
(05/13/98)
Wanderlust
Postmark: England
By Douglas Cruickshank
There'll always be a London: A wandering wonderer ponders the passions of collectors
and cabbies
(05/13/98)
The K Chronicles By Keith Knight
I'm
an adman!
(05/13/98)
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TUESDAY
May 12, 1998
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Today in entertainment:
Home Movies Base man By Charles Taylor
Tommy Lee Jones towers as the nasty, racist, hateful Ty Cobb (05/12/98)
Television "Dawson Creek" beauty pageant; "NewsRadio" hits iceberg
(05/12/98)
21st The dumbing-down of programming By Ellen Ullman
Part one: Rebelling against Microsoft and its wizards, an engineer rediscovers the joys of difficult computing (05/12/98)
Sneaks Reviewed by Rob Spillman
"Heading South, Looking North": A personal and moving memoir, from the Chilean playwright and
novelist, about his political and literary adventures (05/12/98)
Ask Camille By Camille Paglia
Tom Cruise is no cruiser: Camille Paglia on Tom Cruise, Priapus, crybaby Ellen, and butt-kicking feminism
(05/12/98)
Letters The self-contradictions of affirmative action (05/12/98)
Mother's Who Think
Les birds et les bees By Debra S. Ollivier
When it comes to teaching their toddlers about sex, they
really DO do things differently in France
(05/12/98)
Newsreal Gloves off By Jonathan Broder
The fight over the Middle East peace process could get ugly
(05/12/98)
Story Minute By Carol Lay
Doom with a view
(05/12/98)
Wanderlust
Into the heart of China
By Joshua Cohen
Two English teachers glimpse the realities of rural life
(05/12/98)
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MONDAY
MAY 11, 1998
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Today in 21st:
Wired nests with Condé Nast By Lori Leibovich
But will the magazine's new owners dull its edge? (05/11/98)
Let's Get This Straight By Scott Rosenberg
Now that they're sundered from the magazine, whither Wired's Web sites? (05/11/98)
Today in Entertainment:
Sound Salvation By Sarah Vowell
I Want My Camp TV: New MTV VJ Jesse Camp rocks Music Television's regimented world
(05/11/98)
The best of friends By Daniel
Mendelsohn
Why straight women love gay men (05/11/98)
Television Child accused in "Practice" finale; Biscuit gets a date on "Ally"
(05/11/98)
From Niagra to Viagra By Christopher Hitchens
Man's greatest secret revealed! And with father's little helper, he's going to behave better from now on, right?
(05/11/98)
Sexpert Opinion By Susie Bright
Sexpert Opinion Special Report: Men on Viagra
(05/11/98)
Media Circus Hollywoodland By Catherine Seipp
R.I.P., Buzz: The demise of the once-sparkling rag leaves California once again inexplicably bereft of intelligent magazine life (05/11/98)
Mothers Who Think The single-mom scam By Douglas Cruickshank
"About a Boy" with a yen for single moms
(05/11/98)
Newsreal Changing partners By Carol Lloyd
Arianna Huffington spurns Newt and the Republicans, finds liberal friends and cares for the poor (05/11/98)
Books Reviewed by Mary Elizabeth Williams
"Rat Pack Confidential": A detailed peek into the lives of the undisputed kings of Vegas
cool -- Frank, Dino, Sammy, Peter and Joey -- and the forces that destroyed
many of them
(05/11/98)
Letters Courtney Weaver to "Wok-Man" critics: Get off your PC horses
(05/11/98)
This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
Dueling cartoonists
(05/11/98)
Wanderlust
Road Warrior
By Brent Gregston
Insider's guide to Brussels: An expert advises on everything from out-of-the-way hotel treasures to the best bar for
Sudden Death beer (05/11/98)
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FRIDAY
May 8, 1998
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Today in Entertainment:
Not Wilde Enough Reviewed by Carol
Lloyd
Two new portraits of Oscar Wilde capture the
tragedy of his life, but miss the wickedness of his style
(05/08/98)
The Judas Kiss Reviewed by Dwight Garner
Waiting to inhale: Liam Neeson hangs fire as Oscar Wilde in David Hare's new play, "The Judas Kiss"
(05/08/98)
Woo Reviewed by Mary Elizabeth
Williams
The girl can't help it: Jada Pinkett Smith stars in this sexy, sunny comedy about a firecracker female romancing a buppie paralegal (05/08/98)
Television Braugher exits "Homicide"; Ani DiFranco on "King of the Hill"
(05/08/98)
21st Maximum confusion By Janelle Brown
On the Web, a typo throws frat boys and feminists onto each other's turf (05/08/98)
Books Reviewed by Charles
Taylor
"The Everlasting Story of Nory": From the author of "Vox" and "The Fermata," a tale about a
9-year-old American schoolgirl in England (05/08/98)
Mothers Who Think Heedless Love By Barbara Jones
Why parenting doesn't start at conception
(05/08/98)
Newsreal Judicial Watch subpoenas Salon reporters
By Jonathan Broder
Conservative legal group seeks notes and documents related to Clinton officials and the press (05/08/98)
Sexpert Opinion By Susie Bright
Viagra calls: My date with the wonder drug (05/08/98)
Letters Readers sound off on Courtney Weaver's "Tiny, flat-chested and hairless"
(05/08/98)
Salon Recommends Our critics pick the best in books, music, movies, games and Web sites (05/08/98)
Wanderlust Postmark: Tokyo By Dave McCombs
Sex and the salaryman: Changing fortunes are altering one of Japan Inc.'s most cherished relationships (05/08/98)
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THURSDAY
May 7, 1998
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Today in 21st:
Let's Get This Straight
By Scott Rosenberg
Gates tells the world that what's good for Microsoft is good for the country (05/07/98)
Folk rock of ages
By Geoff Edgers
Roger McGuinn's Web site is an experiment in communal musical memory (05/07/98)
Books Reviewed by Austin Bunn
"Sweet Machine": Poetry about New York street life, romance and writing, from the
author of the memoir "Heaven's Coast" (05/07/98)
Today in Entertainment:
The importance of being Wilde By Cynthia Joyce
An interview with Britain's new Renaissance man, Stephen Fry (05/07/98)
Deep Impact By Charles Taylor
Sapocalypse now: The end of the world as Hallmark moment
(05/07/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
"Friends" finale: Tying the knot, or not?
(05/07/98)
Mothers Who Think Kidnapped By Peter Kurth
My sister's little girls were stolen 19 years ago by her ex-husband. So why is the media putting her on trial?
(05/07/98)
Letters Good Riddance to Seinfeld, Bad Rubbish to Elizabeth Drew
(05/07/98)
Newsreal One-man rumor mill bites the dust By David Corn
It took the Hubbell tapes disaster to make dan "scumbag" Burton part
with Clinton-hating ideologue David Bossie
(05/07/98)
Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling
A word from our sponsors
(05/07/98)
Wanderlust Road Warrior By Dawn MacKeen
Airfare roulette: Priceline lets air travelers bid the fare they want
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WEDNESDAY
MAY 6, 1998
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21st The geeks and the aliens By Janelle Brown
Why are the tech industry's best and brightest so determined to spearhead the hunt for extraterrestrials? (05/06/98)
Books Reviewed by Charles Taylor
"Flawed Giant": A sweeping biography of Lyndon Baines Johnson, one that makes a
case for him as the genuine tragic hero of 20th century American politics
(05/06/98)
Today in Entertainment:
Sharps and Flats
Reviews of: Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, Grassy Knoll, Jason and the Scorchers, Air, Solex, Public Enemy
(05/06/98)
Best enemies By Roni Sarig
The perfect harmonies of twin sister duo Dana & Karen Kletter
(05/06/98)
Television DeGeneres slams ABC on "PrimeTime Live"
(05/06/98)
Unzipped Tiny, flat-chested and hairless! By Courtney Weaver
A white man extols the wonders of Asian women
(05/06/98)
Mothers Who Think Thinking of you By Rose Stoll
Among the glittery cards on the rack, where are the sentiments for the mother who could not protect her child?
(05/06/98)
Newsreal A cry against the swine By Lori Leibovich
The last angry newsman: Pete Hamill flays the press (05/06/98)
Letters Oklahoma! Not. Plus: Viagra only aroused my ears
(05/06/98)
Wanderlust
Mondo Weirdo
By Ted Badasci
Come back soon: An ambiguous encounter in Switzerland
(05/06/98)
The K Chronicles By Keith Knight
Guano in Capistrano!
(05/06/98)
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TUESDAY
May 5, 1998
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Today in Entertainment:
Home Movies By Charles Taylor
Why "Rio Bravo" is the Great American Movie (05/05/98)
Television Rematch! Marcia Clark vs. Mark Fuhrman on Fox special
(05/05/98)
Today in 21st:
Web-ability By Mike Britten
Even people who aren't in the position to enjoy all the Web's bells and whistles ought to be able to access its information (05/05/98)
The gene genie Reviewed by Jeffrey Obser
Jeremy Rifkin's new book, "The Biotech Century," warns of a
genetic-bazaar future
(05/05/98)
Buying false racial peace By Jim Sleeper
An unholy alliance of guilty conservatives and fatalistic liberals is propping up our divisive racial spoils system -- and preventing America from finding a higher common ground
(05/05/98)
Sneaks Reviewed by Stephanie Zacharek
"Out of Sheer Rage": More memoir than sober academic study, this book details one writer's obsession with D.H. Lawrence and his own writer's block (05/05/98)
The Awful Truth By Cintra Wilson
Futility: The mook with a thousand faces
(05/05/98)
Letters Bashing Mothers for father bashing, Camille for Seinfeld trouncing
(05/05/98)
Mother's Who Think
Missing children By Rob Spillman
Wanting a Child: When the desire to be parents comes easier than the children
(05/05/98)
Newsreal Investigating a conflict By Murray Waas
Kenneth Starr is proposing an "independent" investigator to look into the David Hale payments probe. The question is, how independent?
(05/05/98)
Story Minute By Carol Lay
The Good Life
(05/05/98)
Wanderlust
West Africa's capital of ghosts
By John M. Edwards
What has Parisian-style boulevards, eight-lane highways and Christendom's tallest church -- all dead-ending in jungle?
(05/05/98)
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MONDAY
MAY 4, 1998
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21st Groveling for dollars By Greg Costikyan
Bugs, babes and booze -- for game developers rustling up financing, there's a million potholes on the road to success (05/04/98)
Today in Entertainment:
Cheerio, "Seinfeld" by Joyce Millman
Saying goodbye to the greatest sitcom of all time
(05/04/98)
Television PBS's "Alexander the
Great"; "Ally" baby
bombshell
(05/04/98)
Right On! By David Horowitz
The party's over: A leftist intellectual tries to resurrect socialism as a movement of "hope." He fails
(05/04/98)
Mothers Who Think Drama Queen Contestants
The best of the worst of what you did: When they were good, they were very, very good. But when our three candidates were bad, they were awful
(05/04/98)
Newsreal The testament according to Newt By David Wallis
In an interview with Salon, the speaker talks about America's attitude toward adultery, accusations that he is mean, his own religious beliefs and what character he would most like to play in a movie (05/04/98)
Books Reviewed by Peter Kurth
"Jane Harvard" is the nom de plume of several recent Harvard
graduates, collaborators on a novel about an Ivy League prostitution ring
(05/04/98)
Letters Do computers teach creativity or just waste our time?
(05/04/98)
Wanderlust
Coronation Everest
By Jan Morris
Remembering the first Everest ascent -- and a lost age of mountaineering (05/04/98)
This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
The mystery of Linda
Tripp
(05/04/98)
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FRIDAY
May 1, 1998
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Television "Homicide's" surprising finale; "X-Files" bioterrorist
(05/01/98)
Today in 21st:
The 21st Challenge By Charlie Varon and Jim Rosenau
No. 8 Results (05/01/98)
Let's Get This Straight By Scott Rosenberg
Playboy and Playmate play a game of meta tag (05/01/98)
Books Reviewed by Suzette Lalime
Davidson
"Like a Hole in the Head": A noirish mystery novel, about a used-bookstore employee, that
reads as if it were written by a feminized Dashiel Hammett (05/01/98)
Mothers Who Think Sex and the 7-year-old boy By Mona Gable
How to deal with it when your 7-year-old begins making the moves on you
(05/01/98)
Newsreal Murderers, cannibals -- lesbians!
By Jenn Shreve
America has a distinguished history of spreading scandalous rumors about its politicians, and the latest batch of White House gossip is nothing new (05/01/98)
Media Circus Oklahomans to Tom Tomorrow: Your porn is as high as an elephant's eye!
By Dawn MacKeen
An orgy-depicting "This Modern World" comic strip is not OK in Oklahoma
(05/01/98)
Sound Salvation By Sarah Vowell
Wild man blows: As Kevin Bacon's and Woody Allen's embarrassing efforts reveal, being a good musician is an actor's most challenging role (05/01/98)
Letters Online cuckold skewered
(05/01/98)
Salon Recommends Our critics pick the best in music, movies, books and television (05/01/98)
Music Reviewed by David Bowman
Lou Reed live: A walk on his mild side
(05/01/98)
Entertainment Salon's weekly guide to movies and television
He Got Game Reviewed by Gary Kamiya
Backboard jungle: Spike Lee's "He Got Game" is a soft-hearted but moving tribute to
faith, love and basketball
(05/01/98)
Les Miserables Reviewed by Charles Taylor
Le snooze: Liam Neeson stars in this high-minded film version of Victor
Hugo's epic tale of crime and obsession (05/01/98)
Wanderlust Mondo Weirdo
Stranded! Readers describe adventures on a Thai isle and in the wastes of western China (05/01/98)
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