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Issue 46: January 6-10, 1997
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Thursday January 9, 1997: Ugly Nazi-loot flap: "Drunken" Swiss president vs. "blackmailing" Jews. Wednesday January 8, 1997: Dousing the flames: The new campaign against American incivility. Tuesday January 7, 1997: Doctors of death: Why physician-assisted suicide is wrong. Special report: Amelio's fan dance at Macworld Expo. Monday January 6, 1997: Speaker of the Devil: Why Newt should lose his post. Daily quote: "Electronic Pearl Harbor". Thursday January 9, 1997: Sahl it ain't so: The toothless inanities of "Politically Incorrect". Wednesday January 8, 1997: Thunder on the right: Are Packers more American than Cowboys? Tuesday January 7, 1997: We bombed in Las Vegas: America's war on kitsch monuments. Monday January 6, 1997: Wired News: The renegades join the media mainstream. Viking, reviewed by Jennifer Howard Sane and gentlemanly literary essays, on his own work and others', from the well-known British novelist ("Small World," "Nice Work"). Le Divorce By Diane Johnson (Fiction) Dutton, reviewed by Dwight Garner A busy and insightful novel about the cultural and romantic clashes that ensue when several Southern Californian women move to Paris. The Divorce Culture By Barbara Dafoe Whitehead (Nonfiction) Knopf, reviewed by Leora Tanenbaum An expanded version of the author's controversial essay about family values, "Dan Quayle Was Right," published in the Atlantic Monthly. Dewey Defeats Truman By Thomas Mallon (Fiction) Pantheon, reviewed by Dwight Garner A romantic triangle unfolds among the politically earnest residents of the failed 1948 presidential candidate's small home town. Island of the Colorblind By Oliver Sacks (Nonfiction) Knopf, reviewed by Charles Taylor From the author of "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat," an investigation of a Pacific island populated by colorblind inhabitants. 3 Russian Fairy Tales - Natalia Makarova
Posts of the week. SALON REGULARS: Flying home on a wing and a prayer. Ill Humor By Ian Shoales The Surreal Gourmet By Bob Blumer Unzipped By Courtney Weaver The Listress By Amy Wallace BOOKS: Six new books map the ever-widening rebellion against diet fascism. Shirley Jackson: Monstrous acts By Jonathan Lethem The Salon Interview: Eddy L. Harris By David Talbot The French best-seller list By Richard Covington MOVIES: "Citizen Ruth" tries to satirize both sides of the abortion debate, but it's too even-handed to have any real comic fun. TELEVISION: Beavis grows up, becomes Fred MacMurray. ISSUES AND POLITICS: Hanging with Bosnian war criminals. COMICS: Carol Lay: Story Minute Keith Knight: The K Chronicles Ruben Bolling: Tom, The Dancing Bug |