Word: bitch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...judge a book by the cover. But perhaps there's another way. Maybe you can judge the author by the cover or, more precisely, the lack thereof. Take a peek at some recent book authors without jackets: Isabel Allende (Aphrodite), Douglas Coupland (Girlfriend in a Coma) and Elizabeth Wurtzel (Bitch...
...then 26, posed strung out and exposing her midriff. The book sold well and established Wurtzel as a hipster social critic even though it dealt entirely with the subject of herself. Now, looking more self-possessed, Wurtzel graces the cover of her second book topless and giving the finger. Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women (Doubleday; 434 pages; $23.95) is, more or less, a meandering lamentation on the fate of irrepressible women, those too angry, too tormented, too selfish--those who, say, would prefer to see big pictures of themselves on book jackets when stock art would do. Unless such...
Often Wurtzel's research doesn't seem to extend much beyond what she's read and reacted to in Esquire. Bitch, in fact, seems intended for people who let all their magazine subscriptions lapse in the late '80s and early '90s and never bothered to ask anyone what they missed. But then, only good girls spend their time in libraries...
...Florida--the Atlantic Coast, Gulf Coast and Okefenokee interior seemingly smushed into one town--where the natives are bathed in swamp sweat, among other unguents. Dreamboat high school guidance counselor Matt Dillon is accused of rape by a student, rich-bitch Denise Richards. Did he do it? And did he also do Campbell, a Druidic outcast with nary a kind word for Richards? That is the mystery facing detective Kevin Bacon, who has his own baroque agenda. Fair play forbids further disclosure of the labyrinthine connivery on display or of the detective's dirty secrets. Let's just...
QUENTIN ("MR. WHITE") TARANTINO AGE: 34 OCCUPATION: Director who really wants to act BEST PUNCH: Trying to sound like an honorary black man, Tarantino went on television to brag to Keenan Ivory Wayans that he "bitch slapped" producer Don Murphy during a fight at a swank L.A. restaurant...