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...NECKLACE PW adores "The Strand of a Thousand Pearls" by Dorit Raninyan, translated from the Hebrew by Yael Lotan (Random House: June 25), giving it a starred review. "Rabinyan's second novel (after the international bestseller 'Persian Brides') maintains an expert balance between lyricism and tough-mindedness. Like Isaac Babel in his Odessa short stories, (Rabinyan) knows that a metaphor is not an ornament, but rather a probe (or even a bullet) into the heart... FORECAST: Reviewers eager to pigeonhole Rabinyan's work will compare it to 'Like Water for Chocolate, but her fierce storytelling and the visceral sexuality...
...long-distance phone service, and only 6% get their phone and Internet services from the same firm, according to a survey by the Yankee Group, a consulting firm. "What we've ended up with," explains Rob Rich, executive vice president of the Yankee Group, "is this complex Tower of Babel that looks very appealing in terms of the basic services it provides but is just mystifying to consumers...
...becoming a minority in the marketplace. In the U.S. alone, 18% of the population speaks a language other than English at home, according to the 2000 Census. In California, the world's sixth largest economy, the figure is nearly 40%. And on the Internet, it's a Tower of Babel. Only 48% of the world's Web users are native English speakers, down from 77% in 1997. By the end of 2003, the figure will drop to 32%, according to the Aberdeen Group, a tech-research company in Boston...
...When we take outlying relatives on a Battery Park walk, we stop in the small park at the north holding The Real World, Tom Otterness? playfully satiric sculpture garden. The witty images - a fat cat borne on a huge coin by oppressed little men, the teetering Babel of a miniature skyscraper (protected by a moat where odd creatures lurk), the iron dog eyeing an iron cat eyeing an iron bird eyeing an iron worm - all testify to a Boschian view of predatory capitalism; and the kids love it. And walking through the Winter Garden plaza, we make sure our visitors...
Certainly there is the potential for fundamental change. Most recent entertainment trends have assumed an ever more fragmented audience. The Internet gave us personally targeted news. TV viewers scattered like the citizenry of Babel among hundreds of channels. Top 40 radio gave way to niche music. Movies were aimed at ever thinner demographic slices. Now, suddenly, the country is united as it hasn't been in years. And hipness--the defining value of pop culture as we know it--is at odds with unity, because it depends on establishing one's self as different from one's countrymen...