Showing results for: quotes (page 163)
The United States of Texas
Farhad Manjoo
Two new books document the death grip that Bush, Cheney and their corporate cronies have on America.
How secure is the Department of Homeland Security?
Mary Jacoby
Senior Homeland Security official Faisal Gill failed to disclose that he worked for an American Muslim leader now in jail on terrorism charges.
The Fix
Salon Staff
Larry King DID know what Depends are -- at least at one time. Plus: Why Gibson's hotter than Oprah or Britney.
The Fix
Salon Staff
Madonna to change name? Catherine Zeta-Jones, stalked? And why won't Tom Hanks run for office?
The quiet coronation
Geraldine Sealey
The writer and the bookstore
Andrew Leonard
James Marcus' exquisitely written tale of five turbulent years at Amazon is exactly what the dot-com retailer's roller-coaster tale deserves: A good book.
The Fix
Salon Staff
Oprah propels "Anna Karenina" onto bestseller list, Faith Hill discusses losing her inhibitions, and some see Hillary Clinton in Meryl Streep's "Manchurian Candidate" senator.
Reagan worship
Eric Boehlert
The "liberal media's" unprecedented 24/7 gushing over a controversial and divisive president caps a quarter-century of fawning.
The genius hits the road
Charles Taylor
Remembering Ray Charles as a man who sang to the soul of America, played the piano like it was a woman, and got us all to joyously shake our thing.
The Fix
Salon Staff
Bruce Springsteen quotes Al Gore, Tina Brown says she owes it all to Ronald Reagan, and why J.Lo's marriage to Marc Anthony might not be legal. Plus: Is there a major mistake in "The Stepford Wives"?
Give ’em enough rope
Salon Staff
From Rush to Newt to Bob Dornan to Ari Fleischer, the right wing's most outrageous (and hateful) comments of the past decade. An exclusive excerpt from "Take Them at Their Words: Shocking, Amusing and Baffling Quotations From the GOP and Their Friends, 1994-2004."
The Fix
Salon Staff
What are Condi Rice's and Hillary Clinton's heads doing in an ad for "The Stepford Wives"? Plus: P.Diddy gets honored and Tobey Maguire gets hairless.
Antiwar hero
John F. Callahan
He made history by challenging a president who had plunged the nation into a calamitous war. More than three decades later, Gene McCarthy reflects on his legendary race against Lyndon Johnson -- and the current campaign to unseat George W. Bush.
Monday’s must-reads
Geraldine Sealey
I Like to Watch
Heather Havrilesky
Why did the WB serve up this ridiculous "OC"/"Baywatch"/"Party of Five" concoction? Why do all Miss Universes have the same cup size? And why doesn't TV just shut down in the summer?
The Fix
Salon Staff
MTV refuses to run "Super Size Me" commercials, Gwyneth to play Marlene Dietrich, and Elizabeth Taylor doesn't want to let van Gogh go.
Right Hook
Mark Follman
National Review pundits do battle over Bush's Iraq speech; Podhoretz says soldiers like Sivits and England deserve their own torture. Plus: Hitchens tags Michael Moore the ultimate ugly American.
Home Depot heaven
Laura Miller
New York Times pundit David Brooks was once a funny and keen-eyed observer of America's social foibles. Now he's become a weird cheerleader for fetishized Ordinary Americans who express their spirituality by buying big-screen TVs.
The Fix
Salon Staff
Sarah Jessica Parker to appear in Gap ads, Beyonce immortalized in wax, and George Clooney and Matt Damon air downtime antics in public.
Letters
Salon Staff
Don't look to China for a traffic role model. Readers respond to Linda Baker's "Why Don't We Do It in the Road."
Cameras too candid for Rummy?
Geraldine Sealey
How free is free will?
Farhad Manjoo
Lauren Slater's new book about 10 landmark psychological experiments has ignited a firestorm in the psychological establishment. But whatever her shortcomings as a reporter, Slater is asking profound questions about human nature and its limitations
Curve ball
Rebecca Traister
Curves gym, with its no-stress workout for exercise-averse women, is the fastest-growing franchise in the U.S. But revelations that its founder gives millions of dollars to antiabortion groups has its customers divided over just what a "female-friendly" business is.
The Times pets a Republican “pit bull”
Salon Staff
Why is the so-called liberal media fawning over Republican lobbyist and politico Ed Gillespie while they savage John Kerry?
Page: 163