Word: belled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...entirely satisfying anonymous phone-sex relationship -- that he is producing something like satire, driven by something like a point of view. A concept for our times: how safe can sex get, not just from infection but from imperfection, and of course from conception, though not from Baby Bell? His new novel, The Fermata (Random House; 303 pages; $21), is somewhat less elevated. A fermata, in music, is the extension of a note, chord or rest. What is extended, or stopped, in Baker's tale is the forward motion of the universe. His hero, a fellow named Arno Strine, has discovered...
...ready for a change," Camp- bell said. "Princeton has a very good[economics] department, but the strength of thePrinceton department hasn't been in my field...
...Hemingway hero is. Because the guy is defi- nitely not one at the beginning; at the end, heis, Even though the book is unfinished, it's allabout the trial and development of a man. My nextstep is to 'How to Be a Hero Theory' and look atFor Whom The Bell Tolls and The Sun Also Rises...
...this point shifts from cautionary satire to routine whodunit, and the basic moral issue is made simplistic. The question becomes not the ethics of televising an execution but the ethics of televising the execution of someone who may not be guilty. Even the kids in Saved by the Bell know the answer to that...
...snuff TV" by the national trade paper Advertising Age; NBC is lambasted for contributing to the problem of TV violence; the show is even denounced sight unseen by a U.S. Senator (Democrat Kent Conrad of North Dakota). It's enough to drive a programmer back to Saved by the Bell: The College Years...