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Pavement is a 65-point word
Rodd McLeod
Our writer challenges rock's biggest brainiacs to a sharky game of Scrabble.
Heart of darkness
Don George
An accomplished writer journeys deep into the twisted plight of the orangutans of Borneo -- and the humans who would save them.
Camille Does the Movies: Program notes
Camille Paglia
Camille Paglia's notes for films shown at the National Film Theatre, June 1999 program, under the auspices of the British Film Institute.
My magical movie mystery tour
Camille Paglia
On her U.K. "Camille Does the Movies" road trip, La Paglia enlightens the Brits about "Auntie Mame," fails to see a Roman lucky phallus and throws a diva fit over the lighting.
Love me, love my wife?
Garrison Keillor
Is it OK for me to see my married male friend without his wife tagging along?
Gore gets religion
Christopher Shea
But can he co-opt the GOP's embrace of federal dollars for religious charities?
A note on the Enlightenment, Romanticism and science fiction
David Brin
The heirs of Ben Franklin and those of Percy Shelley vie for the future.
Take this longing from my tongue
Sean Elder
With his songs of love and God and unspeakable yearning, Leonard Cohen occupies his own place in the musical cosmos.
“Star Wars” despots vs. “Star Trek” populists
David Brin
Why is George Lucas peddling an elitist, anti-democratic agenda under the guise of escapist fun?
Geri-rigged
Charles Taylor
The artist formerly known as Ginger Spice slips out of the Union Jack drag-queen glad rags with her debut solo effort, "Schizophonic."
The adventures of King Pong
David Pescovitz
Nolan
Bushnell, the quintessential screenager, ported
table tennis to the television and launched a revolution in hand-eye coordination.
A sexual education in Cuba
Daniel Weinshenker
The dance of need and desire differs from one country to another.
Crying wolf
Joan Walsh
Ellis Cose's Newsweek cover story set out to celebrate America's racial good news. So why did it wind up singing the same old despairing song?
Jar Jar mania must die!
Jenn Shreve
The Village Voice takes Jar Jar theorizing too far; a quasi-national alternative glossy editor's cri de coeur; new theories on love and marriage.
Off his feed
David Bowman
Thomas Harris' undigestible mixture of black comedy and sublime horror causes one fan to lose his appetite
Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor
Viewers lament Salon's "Silence" (or lack thereof); Hillary can prove her moxie in New York.
“The Holocaust in American Life” and “The Americanization of the Holocaust”
Jesse Berrett
Two books ask how -- and why -- a European catastrophe became central to American culture.
America's red-hot sweetheart
Michael Sragow
Clara Bow biographer David Stenn talks about how this poor abused beauty from Brooklyn became Hollywood's first real sex icon -- and why she was so reviled for it.
Turko-Armenian war brews in the Ivory Tower
Christopher Shea
After a century of debate about the Armenian massacres, can the Turkish government endow chairs at American universities without branding Turkish studies as wholly corrupt?
Jar Jar Binks on the cover of Rolling Stone?
Bill Wyman
The magazine turns out to be the only institution in the world that thinks Jar Jar is hip.
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