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But what really burned Soudavar, even more than the Advocate's "occasional cigarette tasting nights," was the use of the words "party room" to describe the chamber in which the Advocate throws "parties." "After all we don't refer publicly to [The Crimson's] 'Sanctum' as the Incest Room," he...

Author: By S. E. Silver, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Writers Block Advo Parties | 2/3/2000 | See Source »

Paradoxically, she dabbles earnestly in photography, recording those surfaces that bewilder her so. She dreams of photographing Thoreau's Walden Pond and perhaps capturing a view of New England when "the world of ideas" still existed. Most of all, she wants to take a definitive picture of "the world-renowned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: COMIC BEWILDERMENTS | 2/10/1997 | See Source »

BOOKS . . . DO THE WINDOWS OPEN? The juxtaposition of what should be done set against the difficulty of actually doing it underscores the comic principle that animates Julie Hecht's first collection of fiction (Random House; 212 pages; $21). Her narrator ought to be happy, or at least fulfilled. She and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weekend Entertainment Guide | 2/1/1997 | See Source »

BOOKS . . . DO THE WINDOWS OPEN? The juxtaposition of what should be done set against the difficulty of actually doing it underscores the comic principle that animates Julie Hecht's first collection of fiction (Random House; 212 pages; $21). Her narrator ought to be happy, or at least fulfilled. She and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weekend Entertainment Guide | 1/31/1997 | See Source »

It is not clear what inspires Peck's musical eclecticism, and how he imagines it to all hold together. Adding a polished studio saxophone wail to a folk guitar song does nothing but bewilder the listener, as does a tune like "Strange Weather," with its hip jazz shimmy that sounds...

Author: By James B. Loeffler, | Title: Moxy by the peck | 3/3/1994 | See Source »

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