Word: authorly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Howard Rheingold, author, gardener and painter of his own shoes (moons, planets, stars, etc.), may be the wellhead of this social spirit. Certainly his site, Electric Minds www.minds.com) which opened last week, is the quintessence of online community. "The idea is that we will lead the transformation of the Web into a social Web," Rheingold says. Electric Minds is one-stop shopping for netniks who just like to commune--especially about the impact of technology on life. A "virtual community center" provides pointers to every online klatsch in cyberspace, from The Club for First Wives to alt.shoes.lesbians...
...political attitudes--the Westerners' reflexive contempt for environmentalism and genial hatred of the Federal Government--in the homesteaders' ordeal by hailstorm and bankruptcy. But what makes Bad Land exceptional, on a level with William Least Heat-Moon's Blue Highways and PrairyErth, is a pervasive sense of yearning. The author is powerfully drawn to this hard country, this broad and nearly featureless landscape, and the reader does not doubt that had Raban been born in 1880, he would have found himself in Montana by 1908, driving fence posts with aching city shoulders and checking the sky hopefully for rain...
About 100 people attended Herzog's book-signing of his newly-published memoirs Living History as part of The Harvard Coop Bookstore's "Author Series...
Noah Ben Artzi Palosof, the granddaughter of slain Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, was invited by organizers of the "Author Series" earlier this year...
...while President Clinton's legacy as a complex, fin-de-siecle character seems assured, his status as Kennedyesque trendsetter remains in doubt. His fondness for the mystery novels of Walter Mosley may have briefly nudged the author of Devil in a Blue Dress onto the best-seller lists--but don't bother looking on the current network-TV schedule for any series by famous friend-of-Bill producers Linda Bloodworth-Thomason and Harry Thomason (their most recent show, Woman of the House, was swiftly canceled in 1995). As for setting a sartorial agenda, fashion-industry sources say the President...